Alleging that NIMHANS officials have illegally terminated their services to demand change in working hours, 19 hospital assistants, including 15 women from the Dalit community, are on an indefinite protest since July 9. They are demanding that they be taken back. To.
Activists under the banner of Nimhans Pragatipara Workers Union (NPWU), affiliated to the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), have alleged that the authorities unilaterally extended the workers’ time till 9.30 pm when the state government extended it. Night curfew was imposed, banning travel after 9 pm.
“The working hours were changed only for those working in the Radiology Department and since most of the hospital assistants in this department are women, the workers expressed their difficulties and apprehensions about their safety, and demanded provision of transport at least Of. However, his services were terminated on July 9,” said NPWU general secretary M. Basavaraj alleged.
“Though we are from an outsourced agency, the agency is working at the behest of NIMHANS officials. We will continue our protest till it is restored.
Denying the allegations, NIMHANS registrar BS Sankaranarayanan Rao said that all the employees belong to an outsourced agency and none are directly employed by NIMHANS. “We have no control over these workers and the agency has the power to define the nature of their work,” he said. He said that since they are not employees of NIMHANS, they have no right to misuse the name of the organization.
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