PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has declared that private schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are bound to extend social security benefits to their employees including teachers.
A bench consisting of Justice Syed Arshad Ali and Justice Dr Khurshid Iqbal, while rejecting a petition filed by Private Education Network (PEN) observed that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Employees Social Security Act (ESSA), 2021, being a beneficial welfare legislation, was rightly applicable to private schools.
It ruled that private schools undeniably fell within the ambit of ‘establishment’, to which the law was applicable.
PEN, on behalf of private schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, had challenged a notification issued on Jan 6, 20
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