Implement Minimum Wages Act
Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Apr 4: Jal Shakti/PHE Employees and Worker Association has demanded implementation of Minimum Wages Act in JKUT and release of pending wages of the PHE workers.
A meeting of executive body of the Association was held at PHE Complex Udhampur today under the chairmanship of Som Nath District president and senior Trade Union leader. While addressing the meeting Som Nath said that in the ongoing Assembly Session the Govt has not cleared the policy with regard to pending wages of the workers, and implementation Minimum Wages Act. The Govt is not serious about the daily wagers. The Govt says that it will regularize the daily wagers in phase manner but there is nothing clear about the SRO.
Som Nath said that the Govt framed the Committee for regularization of the daily wagers which was asked to report in six months but 13 months have passed, nothing is clear. The Govt is delaying the daily wagers issues. He further said that the issues about pending wages and Minimum Wages Act are have nothing to do with the regularization. In the UT of Ladakh the daily wagers are regularized and that Govt has also implemented Minimum Wages Act. In J&K, Govt has sanctioned new vehicles for the MLAs and for the protocol of the MLA’s, funds are not available for the starving daily wagers.
He strongly demanded that CP/ ITI/ Land case workers who have completed seven years in the service should be regularized ; the pending wages of 65-70 months of the PHE workers between 2014-2020, be released without any more delay; minimum wages to the workers here be given as per the rate in the UT of Delhi; shortage of staff in the PHE stations and offices be removed and new staff be appointed; accord time bound promotions and conduct DPC in the PHE department without more delay.
Those who spoke in the meeting included- Vijay Sharma, Suraj Parkash, Dinesh Kesar, Ganesh Chand, Karan Singh, Parveen, Rattan Lal and others.
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