ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: The Cabinet sub-committee on regularisation of daily wage/contractual employees will meet on Wednesday to decide about the future of 138 employees of the Pakistan Housing Authority (PHA).

On the other hand, the PHA management has not implemented the instructions of the sub-committee due to which 13 employees whose contracts expired on different dates between September 17, 2011, and December 31, 2011, have not got salaries and ceiling allowances for January and February, Dawn has learnt.

According to documents available with this reporter, in its previous meeting held on February 14 with Syed Khursheed Shah, the minister for religious affairs, in the chair, the committee had expressed concerns over information that salaries and other facilities of the 13 employees had been stopped.

The managing director of the PHA was directed to submit a report on implementation of the instructions issued by the sub-committee regarding payment of salaries within three days.

Some of the daily wage employees requesting not to be quoted said that after the instruction of the sub-committee, they were hopeful that their services would be regularised but the PHA management did not seem willing to do so.

On the other hand, they added, more than a dozen new employees have been appointed during the last eight months.

“We filed a petition in Islamabad High Court and its two-member bench gave an observation that it was crystal clear that the federal government has evolved a policy regarding regularisation of contract/daily wage employees and appellants had served the department for so many years and definitely most of them become overage and would not be able to get government job if they are not regularised.”

They said the court directed the Establishment Division to regularise the employees according to the policy but the PHA management was of the view that the court had not give them the timeframe, so they cannot give them a timeframe for regularisation of their services.

Managing Director PHA Rasool Bux Phulpoto told Dawn that whatever decisions the sub-committee takes about the future of the employees the PHA would implement them. About non-payment of salaries to the employees, he said the minister of housing and works was not in the country due to which the matter had been lingering.

He expressed the hope that the issue would be resolved soon.