STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: As a part of country-wide protest, the workers engaged in the job of casual, contract, ad-hoc, temporary, daily wages, employed in different sectors across the State on Thursday organised a protest under the banner of CITU at Press Club, here demanding implementation of judgment of Supreme Court on ‘equal pay for equal work’.
A large number of workers gathered at Press Club Jammu holding flags, banners and placards and shouting slogans for implementation of said judgment forthwith.
Addressing the workers, State President CITU M.Y Tarigami said that the issue of denial of same wage for same and similar jobs was being raised for long by the trade unions.
Despite having a law of Equal Remuneration Act there was huge disparities in the wages and other benefits between regular workers and casual, daily-rated and contract workers doing the same work, he added.
Further he said that this issue was raised again and again by the trade unions with different governments at the Centre but the government has not done anything on that.
He demanded that at least now, with the Supreme Court directing that the principle of equal pay of equal work constitutes a clear and unambiguous right vested in every worker, the State Governments should ensure this principle and also demaned that there should be no further delay in ensuring implementation of this.
Others who spoke on this occasion were General Secretary Om Parkash, Senior leader CITU Sham Parsad Kesar, Romesh Chand, Latif Kailash Chand, Hardev Singh, H.D Bhomick, B.K Vaid and Ashok Kumar.
