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LML employees demand RC against management
ANGRY OVER undue delay in lifting the lockout at LML factory, hundreds of LML employees staged a demonstration at the office of the district magistrate and demanded that the Recovery Challan (RC) be immediately issued.
ANGRY OVER undue delay in lifting the lockout at LML factory, hundreds of LML employees staged a demonstration at the office of the district magistrate and demanded that the Recovery Challan (RC) be immediately issued.
The demonstration was staged under the banner of LML Limited Mazdoor Sangh.
Agitating employees accused the State government and the district administration of helping the factory management and adopting a callous approach towards the issue. The agitators also accused the DM of not taking any action on the earlier two memorandums handed over to him by the union.
It may be pointed out that the union had handed over two memorandums on April 28 and May 11, respectively, to the DM requesting him to take steps for ending the lockout in the larger interest of thousands of LML employees. A memorandum was also handed over to Chief Minister Mulayam Sing Yadav by the union on June 9 over the issue.
Taking serious note of the matter, the principal secretary (Labour) had issued a notice to the LML management on May 12 directing it to end the lockout with immediate effect. But though over a month had elapsed, the lockout had not been lifted by the LML management and the State government had also remained a mute spectator, they said.
President of the union, JP Pandey, also accused the Labour officials of not taking any step for issuing RC to LML management. “Any authorised official of the Labour commissioner’s office could have been assigned the task of verifying whether the employees had been paid salary and whether the total amount was more than Rs 50000,” stated Pandey.
But the Labour office took no such step and instead gave more time to the LML management, which only showed the government’s anti-labour attitude, added Pandey.
The union leaders also pointed out that the workers had never refused to join their duty but it was only the LML management that never permitted them to resume their work. The union leaders handed over a memorandum to the DM Anurag Srivastav requesting him to issue RC to LML management and declare the lockout as illegal.
