Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 30: Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), J&K today held a protest here near Press Club demanding ‘equal pay for equal work’ for workers as per the judgement of Supreme Court of India.
Scores of activists of BMS today assembled outside Press Club and started raising slogans in support of their demands. The activists said that in a case titled State of Punjab versus Jagjit Singh and others, the Supreme Court has cleared that all the workers who have done the same work as are doing permanent workers, are eligible for scale at par with permanent workers.
The activists of BMS demanded that all daily wagers, adhoc, casual, contract workers, mission and scheme employees must be given salary allowances, holidays, overtime and other benefits at par with regular employees in all the institutions, offices (Government and non-Government), public sector, private sector, all factories and cooperative sectors.
They alleged that the workers are being exploited badly in the factories as well as Government offices by taking 12 hours duty and paying very low wages. They demanded the Central Government to reorganize NITI Aayog and give representation to working class, farmers and different type of people of the society so that positive policy may be formulated.
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It was also demanded that minimum wages for industrial workers be revised, besides implementing Labour law properly, giving benefits of EFP and ESI scheme to workers, increasing salary of Anganwari workers and regularizing daily wages workers.
Those present at the protest site were Lakshman Ravinder Singh (senior BMS leader), Subhash Verma (president), Ashok Choudhary (general secretary) and Rohit Seth (president, NHRM Employees Association, Jammu).
Leaders announced that a massive rally will be held in Delhi on November 17 in support of these demands.
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