India, Aug. 31 -- Chandigarh

The Punjab and Haryana high court has asserted that an outsourced employee cannot claim regularisation of his services on the basis of a long period of service.

"The court cannot convert an outsourced engagement into direct contractual employment merely on the ground that the petitioners have rendered services for a particular period. Length of service, by itself, does not confer a right to regular appointment or direct contractual appointment. Nor can the court create a mode of recruitment which is not contemplated by the applicable service rules or the governing administrative policy. The petitioners have no legal right to claim conversion of their outsourced services into contractual services," the high c...