IREC Rule No.402: Re-employment of dismissed or convicted railway servants
402. Re-employment of dismissed or convicted railway servants:-
No person who has been dismissed from Government service or convicted for a criminal offence shall be re-employed, without the sanction of the President, or if the employment or re-employment is to a Group ‘C’ or Group ‘D’ post, without the sanction of the General Manager.
Note: If a Railway servant who is dismissed, removed or compulsorily retired from service is to be re-employed by an authority vested with such powers either under this rule or delegations made there under this should not be done without the specific approval of the authorities indicated below:-
| Category of railway servant | Competent Authority | |
| a | In cases where no appeal was preferred or no review was done. | The authority next higher than the authority who had dismissed, removed or compulsorily retired him from services. |
| b | In cases where an appeal was preferred of review was done and the action of dismissal, removal or compulsory retirement from service was upheld on appeal/ review by an authority other than the Railway Board. | The authority higher than the appellate / reviewing authority as the case may be. |