KSRTC staff to lastly get wage, however with a situation

By IANS

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the harvest competition Onam approaching, there was hypothesis whether or not the almost 28,000 staff of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation ( KSRTC) will get their pending two months’ wage. The excellent news is they’ll get it and Rs 100 crores have been sanctioned by the Pinarayi Vijayan authorities for the aim.

This occurred after Vijayan and the commerce union leaders held discussions on the problem and it was delivered to the discover of the chief minister that the households of the workers have misplaced all endurance and issues would possibly get out of hand.

The resolution to pay the salaries got here with the situation that the workers’ responsibility construction would change from a 16-hour double shift to a 12-hour single shift.

Presently the responsibility construction is such that every worker who does 16 hours’ double responsibility will get a break day however based on the brand new situation this may now not be relevant and it is going to be a single responsibility of 12 hours. If they work for one more 4 hours that may be handled as additional time and can get them double the fundamental pay and dearness allowance.

But this new situation based on sources has not gone down properly with the workers. To kind issues out, the CMD of KSRTC Biju Prabhakar will now meet the officers.

For lengthy the KSRTC has been main a hand to mouth existence and each time the state authorities has needed to step in to make sure that salaries are paid.

The KSRTC was arrange in 1965 and it made earnings solely that yr and since then it has been ending within the crimson. The collected losses have now became a thoughts boggling determine.

The normal impression is that it’s a white elephant on account of the extremely unionised workers. Despite one of the best efforts of some powerful taskmasters as chairmen and managing administrators, they weren’t profitable in reigning within the unions and yearly the KSRTC went from dangerous to worse.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the harvest competition Onam approaching, there was hypothesis whether or not the almost 28,000 staff of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation ( KSRTC) will get their pending two months’ wage. The excellent news is they’ll get it and Rs 100 crores have been sanctioned by the Pinarayi Vijayan authorities for the aim.

This occurred after Vijayan and the commerce union leaders held discussions on the problem and it was delivered to the discover of the chief minister that the households of the workers have misplaced all endurance and issues would possibly get out of hand.

The resolution to pay the salaries got here with the situation that the workers’ responsibility construction would change from a 16-hour double shift to a 12-hour single shift.

Presently the responsibility construction is such that every worker who does 16 hours’ double responsibility will get a break day however based on the brand new situation this may now not be relevant and it is going to be a single responsibility of 12 hours. If they work for one more 4 hours that may be handled as additional time and can get them double the fundamental pay and dearness allowance.

But this new situation based on sources has not gone down properly with the workers. To kind issues out, the CMD of KSRTC Biju Prabhakar will now meet the officers.

For lengthy the KSRTC has been main a hand to mouth existence and each time the state authorities has needed to step in to make sure that salaries are paid.

The KSRTC was arrange in 1965 and it made earnings solely that yr and since then it has been ending within the crimson. The collected losses have now became a thoughts boggling determine.

The normal impression is that it’s a white elephant on account of the extremely unionised workers. Despite one of the best efforts of some powerful taskmasters as chairmen and managing administrators, they weren’t profitable in reigning within the unions and yearly the KSRTC went from dangerous to worse.