Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 22: J&K Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) has called the termination of 15 employees of RTC as illegal and unjustified and termed it arbitrary.
In a statement EJAC has said that termination of 15 employees (conductors) by the RTC Management is against the justice and law of the land and added that, as a matter of fact all these employees (Conductors) have already been imposed multiple punishments including fine, transfer, demotion and leave etc, at the time of occurrence of alleged offences and most of them were reinstated after satisfaction of Management of RTC and were allowed to continue their work. But it is unfortunate and surprising that all of sudden these employees have been dismissed from their services on the basis of issues already settled by the competent authority.
President EJAC Mohd Rafique Rather said it is evident that the decision of sacking of these employees is against the set procedure, guidelines of CSR and added that the decision seems to have been taken to fulfil hidden agenda of Management to suppress the employees of Corporation without providing the victims any opportunity to defend themselves.
Rather asked the authorities of RTC that if these employees were liable to be terminated then why were they reinstated and allowed to continue their work in Corporation and added that as a set procedure suspended employees are reinstated only after conducting proper inquiry and finding his work and behaviour as satisfactory besides exonerating him off the charges levelled against him.
EJAC leader said that there is no law which punishes a person twice for the same offence, crime if committed, but the way RTC employees have been punished is strange and arbitrary in nature. He said that reportedly few of the terminated employees have not conducted any bus from last many years as they were posted on other works by the Management.
EJAC sought immediate intervention of Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta into the matter.
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