Work woes: Health workers demand risk allowance arrears

The protesters were holding banners and placards and chanted slogans against the accounts section


Our Correspondent June 08, 2015
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FAISALABAD:


Scores of employees of Dengue Control Cell of the Health Department on Monday staged a demonstration demanding risk allowance, which they said they had not paid since 2012.


The protesters, led by Sanitary Patrols Employees Association president Rizwan Gujjar march from the Health Department to Zila Council Chowk where they staged a sit-in front of the secretariat of the district government.

The protesters were holding banners and placards and chanted slogans against the accounts section. They said they should be paid risk allowances immediately.

Addressing the protesters, Gujjar said the government had sanctioned a monthly risk allowance of Rs1,500 to each worker in a sanitation patrol. He said this allowance had not been paid since 2012.

“When we asked the accounts section about why our risk allowance is not being paid, they had no answer,” he said.

He said several applications had been moved to the accounts section for resumption of the payments.

Gujjar said the government had announced a 10 percent raise in the salaries of public servants in last year’s budget.

“This raise was denied to the sanitation patrol. They are still waiting for the raise and its arrears,” he said. He said accountants misbehaved with workers when they asked for their salaries. The protesters urged the chief minister to look into the issue.  They said they should be paid risk allowance as announced by the government. They said services of contractual and daily wage employees should be regularised.  Farooq Haidar, a representative of the health EDO met the protesters and assured them that the matter would be taken up with senior officials. The protesters dispersed on this assurance.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 9th, 2015. 

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