Bus services hit in Punjab as contractual employees go on 3day strike
The state transport department directed its officials posted at different depots to put their regular staff on the job so as to minimise impact of the strike.Inderjit Singh member of the outsourced and contractual employees action committee said the government had promised to bring a policy for their regularisation in 2017, but nothing has been done to date.Another activist Sehajpal Singh said most of the employees are working on contract for past 15 years but the government is not paying heed to their demands.We are also demanding a stringent check on the transport mafia, implementation of equal work, equal pay and to stop harassment of employees he said.