Sanitation workers’ protest in front of DHS

TMI Bureau

Port Blair, Feb 06: The Sanitation workers to Health Department, who have recently been removed from jobs by the private outsourcing company since Feb 04, 2019 being staged protest in front of Health Department demanding their EPF amount of last eight years and direct re-engagement in Health Department.

As per sources, in the first week of January, the outsourcing agency for providing Sanitation Workers to Health Department reportedly removed around 102 Sanitation Workers, most of whom, were working in hospital since last many years and they were also hails from financial backward families.

Workers alleged that earlier many outsourcing agencies had taken contract to provide Sanitation workers to the G B Pant hospital but never such incident came to the light.

Many alleged that there are workers who had been rendering services for the past 8 years still they did not registered under EPF, consequently even after removal from job we are unable to get EPF benefits from the company.

Mr. Sanjay Meshak, MP candidate of AAP in Andaman for coming Lok Sabha Election, in his response, said not paying EPF to employees is a crime and it seems there is a massive scandal with EPF payment of these employees. Mr. Sanjay Meshak demanded a thorough inquiry in this regard. "The DHS must remove the system of appointing a middle man in appointment of sanitation workers. This outsourcing system must be stopped," he added.

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