rishabh yadav 01 November 2018
anubhav Bhatt 01 November 2018
SIVARAMAPRASAD KAPPAGANTU (Retired Manager) 02 November 2018
Your step Mother is a legally wedded wife of your deceased Father. Your father has every right to give nomination of his retirement funds whomsoever he wishes to. However, such nominee should receive the funds in the capacity of Trust only and ensure that the funds are seggregated to the legal heirs.
Further, with regard to compassionate ground appointment, If there are more than two claimants for the job, it is for you both to settle the matter without going to Court. As going to Court will surely defeats the purpose, in view of the present day delays and adjournments. Before 10 years nothing gets settled and even then it shall be open for the appeal by the aggreived party. Therefore, it is better to settle the matter within family.
Just understand that whoever gets the compassionate ground appointment, such person should give an undertaking that he/she will take care of the entire family and dependents of the deceased Employee. In this case, your friend is 28 year old. A Male of that age cannot be taken as dependent. Hence, if Mother gets the job she need not look after him. But when he gets the job he has to take care of Step Mother and the Minor Children. Another point is, if Mother gets the job, she must be in her late 40s if not early 50s (son 16 year old) and so shall have the job hardly for 10 years. In case your friend gets the job he shall retire only after 32 years or 30 years depending upon the maximum age in that department (60 or 58).
G.L.N. Prasad (Retired employee.) 02 November 2018
When the dispute is within the family members, outsiders can not help in resolving the issue. Let entire financial benefits go to your step mother, execute undertaking to send certain amount per month to your step mother during her life time , get those agreements get the status of awards from Lokadalat/Legal Services Authority and then proceed to the employer at the earliest.