UHS employees Protest with children
Lahore: Employess of the University of Health Sciences along with their children held a protest rally from Punjab Assembly to Lahore High Court on Monday for acceptance of their demand of regularisation.
The employees are continuing protest demonstration and hunger strike on 70th consecutive day for not being regularised by UHS in, what they called, violation of Punjab government's orders and UHS Board of Governors recommendations in this regard.
More than 500 employees and their children lying down on burning strip at GPO Chowk under scorching sun blocked the traffic from all four sides causing immense inconvenience to the motorists, commuters and other road-users for over an hour.
They were holding banners and placards inscribed with their demands and raising slogans against the UHS administration for denying their right to regularisation. They condemned the UHS administration saying that they had terminated the services of all protesting employees instead of regularising their services.
The hunger strike and protest in sizzling heat by the UHS employees during two and a half months has so far failed to move provincial government authorities as none of the officials bothered to visit the protesting employees in order to give a sympathetic word with regard to regularisation of their services in the university.
"We have been made to run from pillar to post but nobody has turned up to listen to the genuine grievance of depriving us of a right of regularisation," the affected UHS employees regretted, adding that they had not been paid any salary and were unable to feed their family. "Our families and children are suffering from starvation," they lamented. They urged the Lahore High Court and provincial government to intervene and order UHS authorities to regularise the services of its employees from grade 1 to 15, which has already been implemented in all other government departments including all autonomous institutions under the Punjab government's policy of abolishing the contract policy in the province.The News
