 "Pinarayi Vijayan")
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday stayed for two months the state government's decision to deduct six-day salary of its employees for five months to garner resources for the coronavirus outbreak .
Various Congress-led staff unions had approached the court over the "arbitrary manner in which employees had been forcibly directed to contribute to the CM Covid Relief Fund".
The court pointed out that salary is an employee's right. However the court said that the state government could go in for an appeal, if it wished.
