Instead of recognising their services, the government continues to ignore clerks, says APCA Punjab general secretary. PHOTO: FILE
Hundreds of All Pakistan Clerks’ Association (APCA) members on Wednesday staged protest demonstration, demanding a 50 per cent raise in salaries.
They also demanded better allowances, incentives and other benefits.
Scores of clerks and other employees of Class-IV marched to Zila Council Chowk where they staged a sit-in in front of the secretariat of district government.
They were holding banners and placards and chanting slogans in favour of their demands.
APCA Punjab general secretary Chaudhary Abdul Aziz Bhatti, regional president Wajid Abbas Gujjar and divisional general secretary Habibur Rehman Lodhi led the protest.
Addressing the protesters, Bhatti said clerks made up the backbone of government departments.
“Instead of recognising their services, the government continues to ignore clerks,” he said.
He said the price hike had aggravated problems of low-salaried persons.
He said privatisation of government departments would amount to “economic murder” of Class-IV workers who might lose their jobs.
Bhatti said the government should take steps to control the price hike and increase salaries of Class-IV employees.
Gujjar said if the government did not raise salaries by 50 per cent, clerks would launch a country-wide protest till their demands were accepted,” he said.
He said the government should regularise services of daily-wage, contractual, ah-hoc and work-charge employees.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 14th, 2015.
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