KARACHI, March 7 Workers of the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation have urged the authorities concerned to regularise the services of more than 1,000 low-paid contract employees working in the organisation.

The PBC United Staff Organisation (CBA) said that most of the 1,000 employees working in lower grades for more than a decade were being paid wages less than the minimum monthly salary of Rs6,000 announced by the government.

Describing the daily wages of Rs150 as the worst kind of exploitation, the union demanded that assistants, naib qasids, sanitary workers, drivers, clerks and other employees be paid at least the minimum wages fixed by the government until their services were regularised.

More than 600 PBC employees working in grades from 1 to 4 were to be upgraded according to the previous year`s budget announcement, union leader Ansar-ul-Haq said, adding that they were still not upgraded after over a year and half.