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Job security for electricity contract workers urged

Staff Reporter

Power talk: The United Electricity Employees Union State Secretary, Sudha Bhaskar, addressing the union's first district mahasabha in Cuddapah on Saturday.

CUDDAPAH: The Government should issue orders to continue contract workers, despite change in contractors, to ensure their job security, the United Electricity Employees Union State Secretary, R. Sudha Bhaskar, demanded on Saturday.

Insecurity loomed large among 20,000 contract electricity workers, whenever a contractor changed, he asserted while addressing the union's first mahasabha here. He lamented the Government's inept attitude on the demand to regularise the contractual power workers. The workers lacked minimum wages, EPF and ESI facilities, he said.

The PF Commissionerate's orders to Southern Power Distribution Company of A.P. Ltd. to pay PF contributions of contract power workers were ignored by officials, he alleged. Neither APSPDCL nor contractors were registering the workers, despite such a stipulation under the Contract Labourers Act, he alleged.

Calling for a concerted movement, Mr. Bhaskar said an agitational programme would be chalked out at UEEU State mahasabha on May 6. The CITU general secretary, N. Ravisankar Reddy, said the regularisation demand was pending for long. The union's district president, D.S. Narasimhulu, vice-president, C. Ravi Kumar, and general secretary, D. Ramesh, also took part.

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