Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 31: JK Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) has called the termination of 15 employees/workers of J&K RTC as illegal and unjustified and termed it arbitrary.
In a statement EJAC has said that dismissal of 15 employees (conductors) by the RTC Management is against the justice and law of the land and added that, as a matter of fact all these employees have already been imposed multiple punishments including fine, transfer, demotion and leave etc, at the time of occurrence of alleged offences and most of them were reinstated after satisfaction of Management of RTC and were allowed to continue their work, But its unfortunate and surprising that all of sudden these employees have been dismissed from their services on the basis of issues already settled.
President EJAC Mohd Rafique Rather said, it is evident that the decision of sacking of these employees is against the set procedure, guidelines of CSR and added that the decision seems to have been taken to fulfill hidden agenda of Management to suppress the employees of Corporation without providing the victims any opportunity to defend themselves.
Rather asked the authorities of RTC that if these employees were liable to be terminated then why were they reinstated and allowed to continue their work in Corporation and added that as a set procedure suspended employees are reinstated only after conducting proper inquiry and finding his work and behaviour as satisfactory besides exonerating them/him off the charges.
He said there is no law which punishes a person twice for the same offence, crime if committed, but the way these RTC employees (Conductors) have been punished is strange and arbitrary in nature. He said that reportedly few of the terminated employees have not conducted any bus from last many years as they were posted on other works by the Management, besides a court case of one of the conductor is still pending before Court but RTC management ignored all these facts.
EJAC appealed the Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta to personally intervene in this issue so that justice is delivered to effected employees who have been left to starvation along with their familes and urged for revocation of termination order at an earliest.
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