Services of forty staffers of dental college terminated
Tribune News Service
Solan, August 9
Fourty non-teaching staff members of DAV Dental College, Tatul, near here, who were abruptly terminated by the management on Thursday, have begun an agitation outside the institute gate demanding payment of pending dues.
The employees resented that despite putting in 20 to 25 years in the institute their services have been terminated with no proper notice or dues like leave encashment, gratuity, etc. which was unfair. The employees said they received phone calls from the management on August 7 asking them not to report for duty from the next day as their services have been terminated.
Though the management has been irregular in paying them the monthly salary since April, they suddenly received three months salary in their accounts on August 2 as per the notice period salary applicable to an employee facing termination by the management and were directed not to report for duty the next day, informed Pradeep Rana, president of the employees union.
The shocked employees, who turned up at the college gate yesterday morning, were not permitted to enter college by the security staff.
Rana said, “Since no fresh batch of dental students has been admitted after 2019 it was understood that the college was closing down. Teaching staff had been laid off in phases.”
“Our sole grouse is that we should get all our dues like gratuity, leave encashment, etc., which we deserve since we have put in 20 to 25 years for the institute,” he said.
They resented the manner in which they were shown the door by a prestigious management of DAV by abrupt termination of their jobs without being handed over their dues.
