Temporary sanitary workers stage wait-in protest on Tirunelveli Corporation premises
Temporary sanitary workers in Tirunelveli staged a protest demanding permanent employment status and better wages. They also called for action against a private contractor for failing to remit provident fund contributions.
Why it matters
The protest highlights labor rights issues and the challenges faced by contract workers in the public sector.
Temporary sanitary workers on Monday staged wait-in protest on the Corporation premises here to highlight their demands including permanency.
The protestors said the Tamil Nadu Government should make temporary sanitary workers,who had served for 240 days and more, permanent. They should be given daily wages of ₹762 a day until their services were regularised.
After deducting the Employees Provident Fund contribution from the salary of temporary sanitary workers, the private contract firm that hired them had failed to remit the deducted amount to the tune of ₹4.50 crore with the Employees Provident Fund Organisation. Besides forcing the private firm to remit the huge arrears, EPFO should initiate criminal action against it.
Since the private firm refused to give protective gear to the sanitary workers, the Corporation should terminate the contract.
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