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The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has issued a stern informing to employees and unit members against participating successful the indefinite State-wide onslaught projected from May 20, stating that strict disciplinary measures, including wage cuts nether the ‘no work, nary pay’ rule, volition beryllium enforced against those remaining absent from duty.
The informing was issued done a circular by KSRTC managing manager Akram Pasha connected Monday amid increasing tensions betwixt transport corp employees and the State authorities implicit unresolved demands relating to wage revision, pending arrears, and worker payment benefits.
The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of commercialized unions representing employees of the 4 State-run roadworthy transport corporations has called for an indefinite onslaught opening Wednesday, alleging that repeated appeals to the authorities regarding wage revision and different long-pending issues person not received a favourable response.
In the circular addressed to elder officers, divisional controllers and different officials, the KSRTC managing manager stated that the projected onslaught cannot beryllium permitted nether the prevailing ineligible model governing indispensable nationalist services. He pointed retired that the Karnataka authorities has already brought the services of each state-run transport corporations nether the ambit of the Karnataka Essential Services Maintenance Act (KESMA), 2013.
According to the circular, employees moving successful transport corporations are barred from resorting to strikes nether the provisions of the Act. It further noted that each 4 roadworthy transport corporations successful Karnataka person been categorised arsenic nationalist inferior services, making onslaught actions legally restricted, particularly erstwhile conciliation proceedings are nether way.
Mr. Pasha urged employees not to enactment successful the projected agitation nether immoderate circumstances and alternatively proceed attending work regularly to support uninterrupted transport services for the public. He stated that transport services are captious for lakhs of passengers crossed Karnataka and that employees should support the assurance reposed successful the corporations by the people.
The circular besides instructed officials crossed divisions and depots to instrumentality each indispensable precautionary measures to guarantee scheduled autobus operations are not disrupted during the projected onslaught period. Officials were further directed not to o.k. permission requests from May 20 onwards but successful unavoidable situations.
The bid warned that employees remaining absent during the onslaught play would look enactment nether the “no work, nary pay” principle. Officials person been instructed to hole day-wise, unit-wise and category-wise records of absent employees for wage deduction and disciplinary proceedings.
