Paramedical and health employees serve ultimatum to State Govt. – threatened to start indefinite hunger strike from May 15

Unions to submit charter of demands on May 5

 Paramedical and health employees serve ultimatum to State Govt.

 threatened to start indefinite hunger strike from May 15

 Ferozepur, May 4, 2015: After formulating a struggle policy of the Union in favour of their demands during two days general house meeting, the paramedical and health employees from across the state has served an ultimatum to the state government till May 15.

After electing state body of the coordination committee of health and paramedical employees Punjab, newly elected state convener Ravinder Luthra and the Chairman Kulbir Singh Dhillon along with the new team announced to confront the state government in the next few days.

“We will submit a charter of demands to both directors of department of health and family welfare department on Tuesday (May 5). The state government and the department would have a period of 10 days to resolve our demands. If the state government fails in solving our demands, a state level indefinite hunger strike would be started at the state headquarter at Chandigarh against the government. The employees from across the state would sit on the hunger strike turn by turn and the agitation would be continued till the demands are accepted”, said Ravinder Luthra.

While electing the state body, the delegates from across the state requested the newly elected body to place the demands to the state government at high level and a pressure of agitation should be adopted to get the demands accepted.

While divulging the details, Mohinder Pal Loomba and Rachhpal Singh Sosan said that the main demand of the outfit is regularization of jobs of contractual staff under National Health Mission and other outsourcing schemes. “There are more than 50% employees working under various contractual schemes and they are working on too little salaries”, they added.

“The other demands includes implementation of Assured Career Progression (ACP) scheme for all employees, increase of two years in service period of class III and class IV, filling of vacant seats of all the categories, providing the due promotions of employees, regularization of services of pharmacists and class IV working in 1186 rural dispencries, lifting ban from recruitment of drivers and class IV employees and withdrawal of decision of recruiting new employees on just basic pay, formulation a transparent transfer policy and stopping of political interference in the transfers and implementing basic formula of ‘equal work-equal pay’ for the employees working on same post in the department”, they further added.