Wildlife employees demand regularization, minimum wages

Wildlife Employees and Workers Union staging protest on Monday. —Excelsior/Shakeel
Wildlife Employees and Workers Union staging protest on Monday. —Excelsior/Shakeel

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, June 22: The contractual employees in the Wildlife Department today staged a protest demanding their immediate regularization as well as the implementation of Minimum Wages Act.
Scores of such employees assembled here—keeping in view the social distancing measures—criticised the administration for not taking a note of their plight.
They said that the government has announced new jobs, while not taking care of those who have been already appointed but noT regularized.
“If they can appoint them, what is stopping them from regularizing us,” they said.
The employees said that they demand that the government take note of their demand of regularization and providing them wages as per norms.
“While we do all the hectic tasks on the ground, we are being given nothing in the name of wages; even for many, the wages for last so many months is pending,” they said.
The employees appealed the LG’s administration to look into their issues and get them resolved failing which they will be forced to come on the roads.