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Members of Tamil Nadu Nurses Welfare Association demanding adjacent wage for adjacent enactment and occupation permanency posted a missive to the Chief Minister M.K. Stalin from Madurai connected Tuesday.
S.K. Sujatha, person of the Tamil Nadu Nurses Welfare Association, said that successful a bid to emphasise their long-pending demands, the nurses moving successful assorted authorities hospitals, taluk hospitals, Primary Health Centres, among others stuck a card bearing their demands successful their uniforms passim the day.
In addition, the nurses, en masse, penned a missive listing retired their needs and posted it to the code of Mr. Stalin, she added.
Their predominant request to the State authorities was to retreat their entreaty successful the Supreme Court against the Madras High Court’s bid directing the State to grant equal wage for imperishable and consolidated unit nurses.
“There are respective thousands of nurses successful the State who are getting precise minimal wage contempt moving for much than 10 years. We besides bash the aforesaid enactment the imperishable nurses bash each day,” she said.
Though determination were a bid of demonstrations and representations for their demand, their plea was accepted by the Madras High Court and done an bid it directed the State authorities to marque the wage of consolidations workers connected a par with the imperishable workers, she elaborated.
Further, the tribunal besides ordered to wage the wage with arrears from 2021, she noted.
“But the existent authorities unwilling to wage the nurses their owed wage went for an entreaty successful the Supreme Court,” she said.
Ms. Sujatha said that they were bound to punctual the DMK authorities of their ain predetermination committedness of making the jobs of consolidation workers permanent.
Even aft completing 4 years of their governance, they were ignorant astir their promise, she noted.
“The authorities indispensable realise that holding the permanency of workers who person completed 10 years of their work is against the rights of the workers,” she stated.
