Summary:
Tribune News ServiceBathinda, August 23The Contractual Employees’ Sangharsh Morcha on Friday staged a protest at Children’s Park and later carried out a march till the District Administrative Complex and burnt an effigy of the state government. Notably, the union members consisting workers from four different departments were demanding the implementation of Punjab Ad hoc, Contractual, Daily Wages, Temporary, Work Charged and Outsourced Employees Welfare Act, 2016. Employees from Powercom Department, 108 Ambulance Service, MGNREGA, Water Supply and Sanitation, master motivator, health department and Thermal Plant Lehra Mohabbat participated in the protest on Friday. Earlier, the union members conducted a meeting at Children’s park. Gurvinder Singh Pannu, president of the union, said, “Citing one reason or the other, the state government has not implemented the Punjab Ad Hoc, Contractual, Daily Wages, Temporary, Work Charged and Outsourced Employees’ Welfare Act, 2016, till now..