WSSCA staff protest non-payment of salaries

Sanitation workers to go on strike on Eid in Abbottabad

ABBOTABAD:

Sanitation staff of Water and Sanitation Services Company Abbottabad (WSSCA) on Tuesday staged a protest against the non-payment of salaries for Eidul Fitr and announced to stop working particularly during the Eid holidays.

Talking to the media, the sanitation staff said that if the department does not pay the salary in the coming two days then the employees of other organisations, including DHQ Hospital, Ayub Medical Complex, and Class IV employees working in educational institutions would also join the protest and stop working.

They added that despite the issuance of a notification by the provincial government to release salaries, WSSCA did not pay the salaries and created chaos for the janitorial staff by not giving them their wages. Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) Chairman sanitation workers union, Zahid Sheikh and President Khalid Sheikh, among others while addressing sanitation workers in Fawara Chowk, said that a notification was issued by the provincial government to pay salaries to WSSCA employees.

Sheikh said that the CEO of WSSCA was showing no interest in the issues of sanitation staff. Eidul Fitr was approaching and "we are facing critical financial issues due to the non-payment of salaries."

Published in The Express Tribune, April 19^th, 2023.