The Punjab School Education Department begins the second phase of teacher "rationalization," next week.

In accordance with official guidelines, a comprehensive report has been requested from all District Assistant Education Officers (DAEOs) and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) due to the failure of a number of instructors to report for their new assignments during the initial phase. The agency has issued a warning that teachers who disregard transfer orders will face severe consequences.

The director of monitoring has given officials two days to finish registering and verifying students' enrollment on the central education system (CESS) and to make sure that directives are carried out promptly.

Posting Policy for Married Women Employees

The Sindh High Court (SHC) has stressed that married women employees must be assigned to the same place as their husbands in order to protect the integrity of marriage.

The decision was made in response to a petition that was submitted by a female teacher who claimed that the government's wedlock policy had been broken by the Sindh Education Department's decision to cancel her relocation to Hyderabad.

The petitioner claimed that when her husband was employed in Hyderabad, she was serving in Naushero Feroz.

Under the wedlock policy, she had been relocated to Hyderabad at first, but the department then revoked her transfer with a new notification. She said that the cancellation was illegal because spouses are guaranteed the right to be deployed in the same place under the marriage policy.

The state is required under Article 35 of the Constitution to safeguard family life, according to a division bench headed by Justice Mohammad Saleem Jessar. It is absurd and tantamount to punishment for no transgression, the court said, to keep a married woman away from her spouse without cause.

The Sindh School Education Department's 2021 notification, which was issued in accordance with the Recruitment Policy, was unrelated to transfers conducted in accordance with the Wedlock Policy, the bench observed.

When choosing whether to post or transfer female employees, the court emphasized that administrative authorities must put family unity first because separation can lead to both financial and psychological distress.

The petitioner's posting in Hyderabad was reinstated after the SHC granted the appeal and overturned the department's notification.