Ultimatum: WWB employees threaten to go on strike

Employees have not been paid for four months

PESHAWAR: Employees of Workers Welfare Board (WWB) will go on strike on June 2 if their unpaid salaries for the past four months are not released by June 1.

This was said by WWB Employees Association K-P President Shah Zulqarnain during a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Thursday.

He said the appointments made by former education director Mujahid Hussain Soori were discriminatory. Zulqarnain rejected the list of 700 employees forwarded by Soori.

The association’s provincial president asked the government to make decisions as per the terms of reference.

“All employees who have been sacked should be restored and their dues should be cleared,” he said.



Zulqarnain also demanded regularisation of contractual and sanction-based employees who have been working in the company for five years.

“No officer on deputation will be borne by the employees,” he added.

“Even the courts had given verdicts against such employees.”

On the other hand, he demanded a streamlined service structure and the regulations for the Workers Welfare Board and Workers Welfare Fund (WWF) Islamabad. He said employees must be promoted as per the terms and conditions of WWB and WWF.

The association’s provincial president lauded Minister for Labour Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli’s efforts to reform the department.

“However, there were elements who are trying to foil her policies,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 27^th, 2016.