Punjabi University outsourced, daily wage employees' protest enters Day 2

Tribune News Service

Patiala, December 16

Security staff of Punjabi University today remained on strike over their demands of promotion and increment in wages for the second consecutive day today. The staff said the protest was organised for promotion of employees, who had been working on daily wages. Workers have held a similar protest on campus gates earlier too.

Arvinder Singh, one of the security guards, claimed that the university had in 2012 decided that outsourced workers, who completed five years of their service, would be brought on university’s roll.

“Some workers have been working in the university for over seven years, but they have still not been regularised,” he added.

Daily wagers of the university were also protesting as they were paid a meagre amount of Rs9,132 per month. “They want their wages hiked to Rs18,000 per month. The protest will continue till their demands are met,” he said.