NOWSHERA: The class-IV employees on Tuesday threatened to hold a protest sit-in outside the house of Imran Khan in Banigala, Islamabad, on Nov 27 if the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government failed to issue a notification for their promotion to next grade by then.

They said that the government was ignoring the class-IV employees while rest of the government workers, including clerks and teachers, had been given due promotions.

In Nowshera, All Class-IV Employees Association’s district president Zahid Zaman and other office-bearers

said that class-IV employees from all parts of the province would participate in the proposed sit-in and they were ready for any sacrifice to get their rights.

They vowed that the sit-in would be continued till acceptance of their demands.

They also warned that their colleagues would stop work in all departments if their case for promotion was not taken up on priority.

Threaten protest outside Imran’s house on Nov 27

In Daggar, the class-IV employees set up a one-day hunger strike camp on Tuesday and demanded immediate promotion to the next grade.

District president of the association, Bacha Khan, also spoke to protesters, including a large number of clerks and teachers.

He said that the decision of setting up protest camps throughout the province was taken in a meeting of the association at the provincial level.

Deputy commissioner Khaista Rehman also visited the camp and invited the employees’ leaders for talks.

In Dera Ismail Khan, the district chapter of the association held a protest camp to press the government for resolving their problems.

The participants from different government departments were wearing black bands around their arms and holding banners inscribed with slogans against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led government’s policies against the low grade workers.

They said that discriminatory policies against the class-IV employees should be discarded and they be promoted to next grade to enable them to earn a respectable livelihood for their families.

Published in Dawn, November 26th, 2014