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Workers seek compensation

BANGALORE: The Bengal Lamps Workers Union has appealed to the Karnataka Government to intervene and safeguard the interests of employees of the company. The union has favoured a joint meting with the management to arrive at a solution.

Addressing presspersons here on Saturday, union joint secretary Ashok Kulkarni said over 400 employees of Bengal Lamps, which was closed down in 1989, had been living in poor conditions.

He said that the High Court of Karnataka had, in March last year, directed the management to pay compensation to workers at 50 per cent of their wages for the period that the factory remained closed. “However, the management has not implemented the court order,” he said.

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