The Himachal Pradesh High Court, while giving important provisions regarding the retirement age of Class IV employees, has clarified that Class IV employees who were engaged in government services before May 10, 2001, will retire only on attaining the age of 60 years. Those employees whether they were regularized before the said date or were temporarily engaged, they will be retired only at the age of 60 years. Giving this order, the court also clarified that if any such employee is retired at the age of 58 years, then he should also be deemed to have retired at the age of 60 years and during this period all the benefits except the salary will be taken as pension. be given.The court held that class IV employees being a homogeneous class, there cannot be any discrimination among them regarding the age of retirement. A full bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq, Justice Ajay Mohan Goel and Justice Jyotsna Riwal Dua gave this important ruling.