Regularise employees and grant pension benefits, Tasmac union urges govt.

The Tamil Nadu Tasmac Employees’ Union (AITUC) connected Saturday passed a bid of resolutions demanding occupation regularisation, pension benefits, and sweeping reforms successful the State’s liquor trade, astatine its State Council gathering held here.

Presiding implicit the meeting, national State president and erstwhile MLA N. Periyasamy said workers recruited done employment offices successful 2003 — erstwhile the State authorities took implicit retail liquor commercialized from backstage syndicates — had served for implicit 23 years without occupation security, periodic wage revision, oregon status benefits. “These employees were made to deposit information amounts of up to ₹50,000 portion joining duty. Despite decades of loyal service, they stay declaration workers with nary lasting orders and nary protection. We impulse Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay’s authorities to extremity this injustice,” helium said.

The national demanded that the 3,474 employees of the 717 shops closed nether the Chief Minister’s orders beryllium absorbed into vacant posts successful different authorities departments based connected their qualification.