Chandigarh, The Punjab authorities mentioned on Monday night that the proposed workers’ strike on Tuesday is “unlawful” and warned of motion if the general public confronted inconvenience.
The assertion of Trade Minister Aman Arora got here forward of the federal government workers’ name to proceed on mass informal depart on Tuesday.
The Punjab Sanja Mulazam Manch final month had given the state authorities time until September 7 to withdraw a latest discover issued to the protesting workers, in any other case the staff would proceed on mass depart on September 8.
The Punjab authorities directed the officers involved to situation present trigger notices to these workers who remained “unauthorised absent” on August 27.
In an announcement on Monday, Minister Arora mentioned the proposed worker strike is illegitimate as a result of the matter associated to the dearness allowance is already sub-judice earlier than the Supreme Court docket.
He asserted that the Punjab authorities has already addressed the demand of round 85,000 workers by deciding to boost their DA from 42 to 60 per cent and has provided wage parity with comparable central authorities workers for others.
The minister appealed to the staff to not grow to be “political instruments” and mentioned that whereas the Bhagwant Mann authorities stands firmly with its workers and stays dedicated to resolving their real issues by way of dialogue, it additionally has an equal accountability in the direction of the three crore Punjabis and can’t enable disruption of important public companies.
He affirmed that any inconvenience prompted to the general public would compel the federal government to take requisite motion in accordance with regulation.
He appealed to worker organisations to proceed partaking with the federal government and never enable “political pursuits” to come back in the best way of a constructive decision.
He reiterated that the federal government stays dedicated to discovering a balanced and truthful answer. “Punjab’s workers and the folks of Punjab will not be two sides. Each are integral to the progress of our state.
“We enchantment to workers to boost their issues by way of the suitable channels and never resort to an unlawful strike, whereas making certain that worker pursuits are protected with out compromising Punjab’s monetary stability and the rights of the folks to uninterrupted public companies,” Arora mentioned.
He additional mentioned the federal government has already addressed the DA demand of round 85,000 workers recruited after July 17, 2020 by deciding to extend their DA from 42 to 60 per cent. The choice covers workers recruited below the post-2020 regime, whose pay relies on the central authorities’s seventh Pay Fee sample.
Nonetheless, it won’t profit workers recruited earlier than July 17, 2020.
The broader situation of DA and arrears can also be earlier than the Supreme Court docket and the state authorities will abide by the choice of the apex courtroom, mentioned Arora.
Over three lakh authorities workers, who went on a statewide strike on August 27, urgent the state authorities to just accept their varied calls for, together with the discharge of their pending 18 per cent DA.
The Punjab authorities had moved the Supreme Court docket difficult a excessive courtroom order directing it to launch all pending dearness allowance and dearness aid dues to state workers and pensioners inside a fortnight, contending that the path to pay arrears totalling round ₹14,191 crore in such a brief interval was constitutionally not possible.
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