FAISALABAD:
Hundreds of Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) employees staged a sit-in on Saturday against the non-payment of their salaries in front of Wasa headquarters. The protesting employees blocked Jail Road for two hours and chanted slogans against the establishment.
The employees said that they had not been paid for over a month and that Wasa officials kept promising to address their concerns but failed to do so.
The workers demanded the immediate payment of their salaries besides an increase in fringe benefits. They vowed to continue their protest till their demands were met.
Wasa manging director Zahid Aziz said that the agency was facing severe financial constraints as billions of rupees were outstanding against its chronic defaulters.
“We have made special arrangements to pay the salaries as soon as we can but the people need to be patient,” he said. Aziz said that 70 percent of Wasa employees had already been paid salaries while rest of them would be paid soon.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 17th, 2011.
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