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The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)-affiliated Erode District Medical Department Employees’ Union has urged the State authorities to guarantee afloat implementation of declaration conditions and statutory benefits for outsourced workers engaged successful 9 authorities hospitals successful the district.
In a practice submitted to Health and Labour Department officials, AITUC territory president and Tamil Nadu State caput S. Chinnasamy said Crystal Integrated Services Limited had been awarded the declaration for housekeeping, information and allied services successful authorities hospitals functioning nether the Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services (ESI), and the Commissionerate of Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy successful the occidental and bluish zones of Tamil Nadu.
The national said the institution had been carrying retired enactment since April 12, 2026, successful 9 hospitals successful Erode district, including the Erode Government Headquarters Hospital, Government Hospitals astatine Gobichettipalayam, Sathyamangalam, Bhavani, Anthiyur, Perundurai, Kodumudi and Kavundapadi, too the Bhavanisagar Dispensary and Hospital.
According to the representation, the institution had not appointed the afloat spot of workers prescribed nether the contract. At the Erode Government Headquarters Hospital alone, 251 workers, including housekeeping staff, information personnel, electricians, dhobis, adjunct cooks and supervisors, were to beryllium appointed, but lone astir 175 workers had reportedly been engaged.
The national further alleged that implicit 35 workers appointed nether different schemes and engaged successful unrelated duties were being shown successful attendance records arsenic declaration employees of the company. It urged the authorities to discontinue the signifier immediately.
The practice stated that wages for April 2026 had not been paid till May 20, causing hardship to workers. It besides alleged that uniforms supplied to women workers were of mediocre quality.
The national demanded contiguous outgo of pending wages, implementation of EPF, ESI, bonus and different statutory benefits, contented of wage slips, clip and individuality cards, proviso of play holidays with wages, abstracted restrooms for men and women workers, and subsidised canteen facilities. Copies of the practice were sent to elder officials of the Departments and the contracting company, the national said.
