Contractual employees discuss pending demands

Threaten to launch agitation on Dec 18

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, December 8

Bathinda zone Powercom Contractual Employees Sanghrash Committee members conducted an annual meeting-cum-convention at Teachers’ Home here. They discussed the status of pending demands and their future course of action to get their demands fulfilled, including skill allowance, outstanding arrears as per DC rates, Diwali bonus among others, on Sunday.

While addressing the members of the union, executive member Gurvinder Singh Pannu said, “Successive governments had not regularised the jobs of contractual workers for the past many years. Despite rendering services in the departments for years, the state government has not implemented the Punjab Ad Hoc, Contractual, Daily Wages, Temporary, Work Charged and Outsourced Employees’ Welfare Act, 2016.

The union members said they would up the movement against the retrenchment of contractual employees in the coming months. They added that the state government and the Powercom Department management had been exploiting workers since April 2018. “The genuine demands of the workers have been lying pending for a long time. They have not received bonus for the year 2018-2019. Demand for increase in salaries will also be laid. By delaying the salaries of employees, the government is disrespecting us. If the demands are not met then we would launch an agitation against the government on December 18,” added members.