Suki Kinari Dam workers reinstated

ABBOTABAD:

Around 900 employees of Sukki Kinari Dam, Kaghan, were reinstated after successful negotiation between China Gezhouba Group Company Limited (CGGC) and Shaheen Labour Union (SLU). The Chinese construction company signed an agreement with Shaheen Labour Union (SLU) for the reinstatement of the workers that had been laid off due to coronavirus fears. Two days ago, SLU President Syed Tahir Hussain Shah gave a strike call in the dam construction site area. Subsequently, officials of CGGC inked an agreement with the SLU according to the Pakistani labour laws and reinstated 900 employees. According to the agreement the construction company would take samples of all employees for Covid-19 tests and keep then in quarantine while all of their expenses would be paid by the company. If the workers were tested negative for the disease, they would go continue their assigned duty while the Covid-19 positive workers would be treated as per the government of Pakistan policy.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 11^th, 2020.