AUAB discusses the issues of contract workers in the meeting held with the Director (HR).

The AUAB is seriously taking up the issues of non-payment of wages to the contract workers for the past 8 months, as well as their large scale retrenchment. This is because due to the above mentioned problems, the maintenance of BSNL’s services at the field level are severely affected and thereby the Company’s revenue collections are also impacted. In yesterday’s meeting with the Director (HR) and the Director (CM), this issue was discussed seriously. It was demanded that the wage arrears of the contract workers should be paid without further delay and also the retrenchment of contract workers should be stopped. The Director (HR) told that despite severe financial crisis, the Corporate Office has released funds in October, 2019, as per the following details.

Kerala – Rs.6.75 crore, West Bengal – Rs.6.5 crore, Kolkata – Rs.14.5 crore and ETR – Rs.1 crore.

The representatives demanded that the Management should take steps to clear the wage arrears of all the circles. They also pleaded that the letters issued to retrench the contract workers should be reviewed.