Class-IV employees demand increase in pay, pension

Will boycott work from April 28 onwards

PESHAWAR: Class-IV employees from various departments in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government protested on Sher Shah Suri Road, demanding an increase in their salaries and pension.

“We will halt work at the Civil Secretariat from April 28 onwards if the government does not revise the pay scale,” said the K-P head of the class-IV association, Akbar Khan Mohmand, at the protest on Monday.

“The government always ignores those who are in the lower ranks and provides job security, raises and other privileges to officials of higher cadre,” added Mohmand.

PTI MPA Fazle Ilahi approached the protesters to placate them but they refused to listen to him and did not clear the road for traffic. The protesters started chanting slogans against the PTI government, forcing the MPA leave the site.

In addition to Civil Secretariat employees, workers from other departments—including the museum, forest and wildlife—also attended the protest. The crowd caused a traffic jam on both sides of Sheh Shah Suri Road.

The leaders of the protest said they will also take to the streets in other districts and will boycott their routine work from April 28 onwards till their demands are met.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 7^th, 2015.