The Karnataka Rajya Samyukta Vasati Nilaya Karmikara Sangha, affiliated to the All-India United Trade Union Congress (AIUTUC), staged a protest in front of the zilla panchayat office in Kalaburagi on Tuesday demanding to fill up the vacant group D posts by regularising the services of employees working in government hostels and residential schools.
AIUTUC district president M.G. Raghavendra, in a memorandum addressed to Chief Executive Officer of the zilla panchayat, demanded that the Social Welfare Department to scrap the system of hiring workers on contract basis for the maintenance of government hostels in the district.
The government should recognise the service of these workers who were working as cooks, assistant cooks, watchmen and cleaners for several years and must clear payment of arrears, he said. He alleged that the government neither paid the wages in accordance with revised Minimum Wages Act of 2008 nor contributed their share to Employees Provident Fund.
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He demanded immediate implementation of Employees State Insurance (ESI) and Provident Fund Schemes for the workers. Despite several protest, the officials failed to respond, he added.
Department urged to stop hiring workers on
contract basis