A group of daily wage workers attached to the departments of horticulture and agriculture staged a sit-in protest outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office here on Monday, demanding regularisation of their services.
Under the banner of Raitha Anuvugarara Sangha, the daily wage workers demonstrated for a while and demanded social security benefits such as gratuity, hike in wages, promotion, housing allowance, provident fund, leave encashment facilities and equal pay for equal work.Hundreds of people were work on daily wages in the two departments for more than a decade, in anticipation of getting their jobs confirmed. However, the State government had not regularised the work, they said. The protestors urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to initiate steps to regularise their services and make an announcement to that effect, immediately.
Swamy, Manjula, Mamatha, Ashoka and S. Kumar led the protest.
Published - September 29, 2015 12:00 am IST
