LAHORE, Sept 3: The Punjab government is refusing to reinstate 11 low-rank employees of Chief Minister’s Secretariat even two and a half months after they were reinstated by the Punjab Service Tribunal.

Ikhlaq, Arif, Ashraf, Nadeem, Qamar Abbas and others visited Dawn offices here on Monday with copies of court orders and said the PML-N was critical of the PPP-led federal government for not implementing court orders, but its Punjab government was also refusing to abide by the court (tribunal) decision.

Employed by Welfare-II, a section of S&GAD, in 2003 against posts of drivers, generator operators and housemen etc. at Chief Minister’s Secretariat, they said their services were terminated in October 2008 without any notice and departmental inquiry (for any alleged misdeed or misconduct).

They said when their pleas failed to change the decision of the high-ups, they moved the Punjab Service Tribunal, which reinstated them on June 19, 2012.

They said they repeatedly visited the additional chief secretary and additional secretary (welfare) and produced the court orders before them, but the authorities were not reinstating them.