Plea for service regularisation
MADURAI, OCTOBER 09, 2018 00:00 IST
Contractual workers engaged by Tangedco petitioned Madurai Collector's office on Monday demanding regularisation of employment and increase in wage.G. MoorthyG_Moorthy
Workers engaged by Tangedco on a contractual basis petitioned the Collector’s office here on Monday, demanding service regularisation t and increase in wages.
The workers, associated with the Madurai Electricity Distribution Circle of Tangedco, said that they were engaged since 1997 for paltry wages with no job security. T. Shanmuganathan, one of the petitioners, said all of them were identified as eligible for regularisation of employment by a committee constituted by the government in 2005 to look into this issue.
“In 2012, a total of 4,037 workers in most other districts of Tamil Nadu were made permanent by Tangedco. However, our situation has remained the same for the past 20 years,” he said.
M. Kannan, another worker, pointed out that the employees had submitted 63 petitions since 2009 to the Labour Department to intervene in the issue. “They have not bothered to even respond to any of our petitions,” he said.
Demanding that their service be regularised since they have toiled for the organisation for 20 years, the employees appealed for revising their wages to Rs. 380 per day as a first step.
MADURAI, OCTOBER 09, 2018 00:00 IST
Contractual workers engaged by Tangedco petitioned Madurai Collector's office on Monday demanding regularisation of employment and increase in wage.G. MoorthyG_Moorthy
Workers engaged by Tangedco on a contractual basis petitioned the Collector’s office here on Monday, demanding service regularisation t and increase in wages.
The workers, associated with the Madurai Electricity Distribution Circle of Tangedco, said that they were engaged since 1997 for paltry wages with no job security. T. Shanmuganathan, one of the petitioners, said all of them were identified as eligible for regularisation of employment by a committee constituted by the government in 2005 to look into this issue.
“In 2012, a total of 4,037 workers in most other districts of Tamil Nadu were made permanent by Tangedco. However, our situation has remained the same for the past 20 years,” he said.
M. Kannan, another worker, pointed out that the employees had submitted 63 petitions since 2009 to the Labour Department to intervene in the issue. “They have not bothered to even respond to any of our petitions,” he said.
Demanding that their service be regularised since they have toiled for the organisation for 20 years, the employees appealed for revising their wages to Rs. 380 per day as a first step.
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