The Punjab government on Tuesday decided to implement 'No work, no pay' on the protesting employees.
The government ministerial employees' strike is set to continue till Friday as the talks with the government failed.
On Tuesday, it was only the ministerial staff in all departments that protested, though buses plied as usual and schools and health care institutions remained open.
Only the ministerial staff in these institutions did not do any work.
At the secretariat here, employees, wearing ‘rosh’ (protest) badges, gathered in large numbers to protest.
The Punjab government on Tuesday decided to implement 'No work, no pay' on the protesting employees.
The government ministerial employees' strike is set to continue till Friday as the talks with the government failed.
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Earlier, work in all Punjab Government offices came to a halt on Tuesday, as ministerial staff proceeded on a pen-down strike in offices at Chandigarh and Mohali and on a mass casual leave in districts.
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In less than a fortnight, it was the second such agitation by government employees against the Aam Aadmi Party government. On Tuesday, it was only the ministerial staff in all departments that protested, though buses plied as usual and schools and health care institutions remained open. Only the ministerial staff in these institutions did not do any work.
In both the secretariat and the mini-secretariat and in all directorates located in Chandigarh and Mohali, employees refused to work in the morning and by mid-morning they gathered outside the offices and raised slogans against the government. At the secretariat here, employees, wearing ‘rosh’ (protest) badges, gathered in large numbers to protest.
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The employees are demanding the immediate rollback of the letter issued by the state government that called their mass casual leave on August 27 to protest as “unauthorised leave” and transfer of their leader Sushil Kumar Fauji from the secretariat to an office in Mohali. They demanded that no show-cause notice be issued to employees who went on mass casual leave on August 27.
As the protest gained momentum, the leaders ofthe union were called for a meeting with KK Yadav, Principal Secretary, General Administration, on Tuesday afternoon. After the meeting, leaders said that they were simply asked to roll back their protest, without the government agreeing to roll back the letter.
Some employees also sat on a one-day hunger strike against the government in support of Mohanjit Singh, who was allegedly picked up and tortured by the police for protesting against the AAP government during Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s programme at Shelton village in Sangrur.
