Supreme Court voids regulation allowing lower overtime pay for academic staff than base rate.

The Supreme Court quashed the lower court's dismissal of a professor's claim for unpaid overtime wages. The plaintiff argued that a specific government regulation permitting lower rates for extra teaching hours violated the Code of Civil Procedure and the Constitution. The court held that such a regulation was unconstitutional because it allowed payments below the base rate, which contradicts the principle that overtime cannot be less than the standard hourly wage.