Thane, Sep 11 (PTI) The administration of the mental hospital in Maharashtra’s Thane city has disbursed Rs 58 lakh in long-pending pay arrears of 68 contractual sanitation workers following a Bombay High Court directive, officials said on Friday.
Workers had staged protests and a 28-day chain hunger strike after their employer, Lokrajya Swayamrojgar Seva Sahakari Sanstha, failed to comply with the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, the Shramik Janta Sangh Union stated in a release.
The workers received the amount in their bank accounts earlier this week, it stated.
According to the union, the assistant labour commissioner had in December last year ordered the contractor to pay Rs 58 lakh within 45 days, directing the hospital administration, as the principal employer, to assume liability within 60 days if the contractor defaulted.
When the contractor challenged the order in the Bombay High Court, senior Advocates Gayatri Singh and Sudha Bharadwaj presented the workers’ case, and in April, the court directed the implementation of the labour court orders within four weeks.
The union’s vice-president, Sanjay Mangala Gopal, said that the disbursement of wages has brought relief and the union remains committed to ending the contract system for permanent roles and securing fair wages across the board. PTI COR ARU
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