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Sanitation workers nether the Rural Development and Local Administration Workers Association held a protestin Dharmapuri connected Thursday (September 25) implicit a raft of demands.
They person been demanding minimum wages for assorted categories of workers, specified arsenic dengue prevention staff, h2o suppliers, and drivers employed by the municipality and municipality panchayats successful the district.
According to the association, the minimum wages of ₹745 per day, ₹657 per time and ₹568 per time for municipalities, municipality panchayats and panchayats, respectively arsenic promised successful the G.O. of the section assemblage medication and upheld by the Madras High Court was continuously circumvented. The workers are not paid the minimum wages and the wages determined by the District Collector was little than the minimum wages, the protesters said.
They besides demanded bonus of 8.33% for 2024-25, instauration of UAN numbers by opening PF accounts for the PF deductions made from the salaries of outsourced workers, and urged that the authorities honours its committedness for inducement of ₹15,000 for round-the-clock enactment done by conservancy workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The members besides demanded the implementation of G.O. 156 that entails promotion for sanitation workers of municipality panchayats and supply compassionate employment to dependents of the deceased workers.
Likewise, the relation sought regular aesculapian screening camps for workers, whose salaries see deductions for wellness security and weekly-offs for workers, who present enactment 7 days a week.
