Employees of metro bus complain of salary delay

Tribune News Service
Amritsar, February 14

Security guards, ticket checkers and other staff members of the metro bus service have been complaining regarding delay in the disbursement of salaries. The Punjab Bus Metro Society has hired a private company to outsource the employees. The firm has 250 employees.

The employees of the firm say that they haven’t got salaries for past three months. Some of them claimed to haven’t got it for the past six months.

A security guard at a bus station, who didn’t wish to be named, said, “We do not get salary on time. The company releases it with a delay of three or four months. I haven’t got mine for the last two months.”

When contacted, company officials claimed that the government didn’t release funds regularly which results in the delay.

Deepak, local manager of the contractor, said, “The Punjab Bus Metro Society clears our bills with a delay so we can’t release salaries on time. Now, there is no such problem. Every employee has got his or her salary till December. They will get the salary for January soon.”