HYDERABAD, April 5: The Hyderabad Glass Bangle Mazdoor Ittehad Union has send that bangle workers have been deprived of all facilities permissible under the law. The general secretary of the union Sirajuddin Gadis said in a statement on Wednesday that despite complaints made to the authorities concerned no action had been taken to improve the working condition.
He regretted that the workers were neither given appointment letters nor attendance cards. They were denied causal, annual, medical and festival leave.
He said the union had approached the labour department, commissioner social security, Employees Old-age Benefit Institution, etc., but no action had been taken against the factory owners.
Mr Gadi pointed out that as there was no employment record of workers, therefore they were deprived of their pension, social security cover, group insurance, etc.
He called upon the authorities to implement labour laws in all the bangle factories with a view to protecting the rights of workers.
WATER CONSUMERS WARNED: The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) has warned that defaulters will be arrested if they failed to clear dues by April 14.
In a statement, a Wasa spokesman said that notices had been issued to chronic domestic and commercial defaulters to clear their dues by April 14. He said that defaulters could be arrested under the Land Revenue Act 1967.
He said recovery teams had started visiting houses and commercial centres in Latifabad, city and Qasimabad talukas to check bills.
The spokesman said that consumers living in apartment blocks had also been issued notices.
RECRUITMENT: The army selection and recruitment centre has announced that its mobile recruitment team will be available at the town committee Kunri on April 10, at the highway rest house Sanghar on April 12, and at the municipal committee Nawabshah on April 13.
Interested candidates have been advised to bring original school leaving certificate, matriculation and intermediate mark sheet, domicile and PRC, photocopy of NIC and Form-B, two passport size photographs and a photocopy of father’s NIC along with them while reporting to the recruitment team.