Biometric Attendance System Not Illegal Merely Because Employees Weren't Consulted Before Its Introduction : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court recently upheld the Union Government's move to introduce the Biometric Attendance System (“BAS”) in the Office of Principal Accountant General(A&E), Odisha, rejecting the employee's argument that they were not consulted before implementing the BAS.

A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B Varale set aside the Odisha High Court judgment that had quashed the introduction of a Biometric Attendance System (BAS).

The Court said that “Therefore, in the facts and circumstances of the case , when the introduction of the Biometric Attendance System is for the benefit of all the stakeholders, merely for the reason that the employees were not consulted before implementing the same does not render the introduction of the system to be illegal.”

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