New hirings for Lyari Town upset present workforce

Karachi

The Lyari Town administration has become a cause of disappointment for its present workforce by constantly making new appointments before attempting to clear the dues of its current employees, said the president of the town’s People’s United Workers Union.

In a statement issued on Monday, Inayat Baloch said the town administration was already faced with a severe financial crunch, because of which its 2,300 workers had not been paid their salary for two months, including its Christian employees who were not paid in consideration of their religious occasion of Christmas.

Baloch said many new contractual employees had been asked to report to the town administration for starting work at a salary of Rs12,000.

Two to three workers a day are being sent with appointment letters to take over their responsibilities, he added. He said 300 fresh appointees had joined the town administration so far, which was unfair to the people already working for the town.

If this practice is allowed to continue, it will put further burden on the administration’s finances as regards disbursing salaries, which in turn will bring to halt the services of sweeping, and collecting and dumping garbage, he added.

Baloch asked how the town administration would manage to pay the new employees when it had already failed to pay the present workers. He appealed to the chief minister, the local government minister and office-bearers of the Pakistan People’s Party to take notice of the situation. Priority should be given to the existing workforce, and disbursement of their salaries should be ensured instead of appointing new employees, he added.

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