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Panel visits Kochi port

KOCHI: From anomalies in the check-off system to the case of private motor vehicle workers on the Kochi port premises figured in memoranda submitted to the Parliamentary Standing Commit tee on Labour that visited Cochin Port Trust (CPT) on Tuesday. The team was led by K. Chandran Pillai, MP.

The Cochin Port Employees Organisation submitted the case of contract employees, numbering 267, who are working in various classes in the port. There are about 1,000 posts vacant at the port and the trade union demand was to regularise the contract workers.

The memorandum said the Board of the CPT had ratified a decision to absorb 200 contract employees subject to the decision being approved by the Union government. However, no decision had been taken on the issue as yet.

The memorandum made out a case for handing over of the responsibility for running the port canteens to the port management. These canteens were now run by welfare clubs. The memorandum said the condition of canteen workers were “pitiable and deplorable.” A demand for improving the working of the CPT hospital was raised before the committee.

The attention of the committee was drawn to the need for counting casual service period for pension benefits and to what the memorandum described as “denial of 50 per cent dearness allowance” which other Central government employees were enjoying.

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