T.N. Fair Price Shops Employees Union stage protest seeking better wages and pension benefits

Tamil Nadu Government Fair Price Shops Employees Union staged a protestation successful the metropolis connected Friday, pressing a charter of demands, including an summation successful wages and pension benefits. The Union’s State president, K. Jeyachandraraja, said a wage revision committee indispensable beryllium constituted nether the chairmanship of a civilian servant to revise the wages of just terms shops employees successful enactment with their acquisition qualification.

“Packers oregon helpers indispensable beryllium appointed, astatine slightest connected a impermanent basis, successful each just terms shops,” helium said.

Mr. Jeyachandraraja stressed that galore co-operatives did not supply pension benefits to the just terms store employees. Retired employees indispensable beryllium extended specified benefits. “Shops tally by women should besides beryllium brought nether the power of co-operatives and women employees indispensable beryllium fixed amended wages,” helium said.

“The fingerprint lucifer threshold for biometric authentication, which was revised from 40% to 90%, has affected cardholders, peculiarly elder citizens. This indispensable beryllium restored to 40% match,” helium added.

“Moreover, non-controlled goods similar beverage and brackish indispensable beryllium supplied based connected the needs of the ration shops and indispensable beryllium sold astatine a terms lower, than successful the retail market,” helium asserted.