Sanitary workers employed on contract basis staged a protest in Ponnamaravathi town panchayat, over a higher official’s threat to reduce salary based on the quantum of waste collected by each worker.
A total of 36 sanitary workers staged the protest on Wednesday.
A sanitary worker who participated in the protest said, “We were asked to collect 100 kg of degradable waste from households per day. We could collect only 50-60 kg. The town panchayat officials said they would reduce our salary based on the amount of waste we collect. The officials’ expectations of collecting waste are unrealistic.”
A senior official in the town panchayat said the workers were collecting very less quantity of waste and threat of reduction in salary was not official.
