Employees, pensioners up in arms

Tribune News Service

Mohali, December 19

The Punjab-UT Employees and Pensioners’ Joint Front held a massive rally in support of their common demands at the Army Ground in Kharar today.

The conveners of the rally stated that the Congress government in Punjab had crossed all boundaries of shamelessness by making false advertisements of regularisation of 36,000 employees without confirming a single unskilled employee.

Administration officials later arranged a meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi in the evening.

The protesting employees alleged that the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission had robbed the interest of employees and pensioners.

“Employees recruited after July 17, 2020, are being deprived of the arrears of probationary period. Police action on protesters seeking jobs proves that the Channi government is completely destroying the interest of the employees,” they said.

They demanded that unskilled outsourced workers should be made permanent, minimum wages of workers should be increased under the law and their salaries should be hiked.