The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Daily wage staff stir from today

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Monday, Jun 26, 2006

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Daily wage staff stir from today

Staff Reporter

They want regularisation of service

BANGALORE: Government daily wage employees will go on an indefinite fast and strike from Monday to press for legislation to regularise the services of 17,000 daily wage employees appointed in many government departments since July 1984.

They also want the Government to immediately stay the circular issued by Chief Secretary B.K. Das, which holds out the threat of mass termination of services.

Karnataka State Government Daily Wage Employees' Federation president K.S. Sharma told presspersons here on Saturday that the agitation, in Bangalore, would be a do or die struggle.

The federation had to resort to this mode of action after the Government failed to act on a memorandum sent to Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. The federation had demanded the framing of an Ordinance or legislation to regularise the 17,000 employees, who had completed 10 years of service. The demand was made after a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court ruled that daily wage employees had no right to regularisation of services.

Instead of considering the demand, the State Government, on the basis of the Supreme Court judgment, issued the circular authorising government departments to decide about continuing the services of daily wage employees appointed after July 1984.

Prof. Sharma said the Government, as a one-time measure, could pass legislation or frame special rules on humanitarian grounds for regularising the services of those employees who had completed ten years of service.

He cited three cases where the Supreme Court had upheld legislation and special rules framed on humanitarian grounds.

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Karnataka