An order will be issued on Friday on whether to pay full pay to workers of private companies and factories during lockdown.

New Delhi: An order will be issued on Friday on whether to pay full pay to workers of private companies and factories during lockdown. During the last hearing, the apex court had said that no action should be taken against the company owners who were unable to pay the full salaries to the employees till the order of the apex court in these cases.

Supreme Court During the hearing in the Supreme Court, government said that when the lockdown started, the employees had issued a notice to stop them from leaving their place of work and going to their home states. But ultimately the matter is between the employees and the company and the government will not intervene.

In the last hearing, the apex court sought a reply from the Centre within a week. In this case, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court in which some industries expressed inability to pay their staff.

LockdownDuring the hearing, the Centre told the apex court that the government involved in the lockdown had removed the condition of paying full pay to the employees during the lockdown in a new notification.

The government has said that private companies are anxious to cut the salaries of their employees during lockdown, but industries have called the government's move insufficient. On this, some petitioners opposed the order not to pay full salary.

PhotoThe Supreme Court adjourned the hearing for a week and sought a reply from the government. The petitioners said that the work in the lockdown has come to a complete standstill, there is no income, the pockets are empty so in such a case from where to give salary to the staff, they said.

In addition, several petitions have been filed by various industries, alleging that essential services industries were allowed to work in the lockdown, but most of the workers were ordered to pay full pay to all central government employees.