Pharma unit workers end hunger strike

Tribune News Service

Solan, November 3

The over three-week-long hunger strike by workers of Sun Pharma at Paonta Sahib was resolved with the intervention of the Labour Commissioner last evening.

Labour Commissioner Amit Kashyap said the company management had agreed to pay all terminal benefits to the 28 security guards whose services had been terminated.

They would also be entitled to salary for the notice period by the company, he said. The company management was represented by the vice-president, corporate affairs, who agreed to the decision arrived at after holding talks with the workers and the company management.

The 28 employees who were terminated in September had initially sat on an agitation and later went on a hunger strike from October 10 to press for their demand of being taken in by the management.

Trouble began after the new management sacked the security guards who had been drawing a salary in excess of what the new guards were being given by them.

Industries Minister Mukesh Agnihotri had directed the officials to resolve the stalemate and ensure that the workers got their dues.