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Women contractual workers join chain hunger strike at PGI

CHANDIGARH: Women contractual workers have joined the chain hunger strike being observed by members of the PGI Contract Workers Union for the past 17 days on the PGIMER campus.

Women contractual workers join chain hunger strike at PGI

Contractual women workers at the PGI. Tribune photo



Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 27

Women contractual workers have joined the chain hunger strike being observed by members of the PGI Contract Workers Union for the past 17 days on the PGIMER campus.

The union said despite directions to the institute to implement the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’, the PGI administration had been delaying it for the past around nine years.

“In 2010, the then Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner, Union Ministry of Labour and Employment, had directed the PGIMER administration to implement equal pay for equal work in four categories - hospital attendants/ housekeeping workers, sanitation attendants/workers, security guards and bearers/ masalchi. However, the administration failed to implement it,” the union said.

The union also demanded regularisation of the services of contractual employees as per the notification issued by the Union Government. The union also requested the authorities to settle the case of EPF of sanitation workers deployed in the PGIMER through contractors.


The demands

The union also demanded regularisation of services of contractual employees as per the notification issued by the Union Government. The union also requested the authorities to settle the case of EPF of sanitation workers deployed in the PGIMER through contractors.

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