Staff protest pay gap

Tribune News Service

Mohali, August 28

Members of the Un-revised and Partially Revised Joint Employees Front, Punjab and UT, today staged a protest rally near Gurdwara Amb Sahib at Phase 8 here for their long-pending demands.

Led by Coordinator Sukhnandan Singh Mohnia, the protesters raised slogans against the Punjab Government.

Various leaders said out of the categories which were running equal on pay from 1968 to 2011, some were given different pay grades by the sub-committee on Punjab in December 2011, cheating the highly qualified categories. He demanded that justice be done with the equal pay parity categories. They warned that if the government did not accede to their demands, they would be forced to oppose the Congress in the next Assembly elections.

Daljit Singh Bhakhar, Amanveer Singh, Mukesh Kanda, Dharminder Rahi, Nareshpal Saini, Mandeep Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Ajmer Singh, Deepinder Khaira, Sukhwinder Singh, Navneet Kumar, Gurmeet Singh, Jaskaran Singh, Gurwinder Singh, Harjit Singh, Raj Kumar, Manjit Singh, Sandeep Singh, Gurtej Singh Brar and a large number of employees were present during the protest rally.