Representatives of the Ugar Sugar Contract Workers Union, affiliated to the All India Trade Union Congress, have said that the management of Ugar Sugar Works Ltd. is preparing to sack workers demanding wages as per Minimum Wages Act.
Addressing a media conference here on Tuesday, honorary president of the union Mahesh Kumar Rathod said that 54 workers who have been serving in the company as security guards for 15 years are under the constant threat of being removed from their jobs.
“These workers have been working in the sugar factory for meagre wages for the last 15 years. They are working under a contract labour system. They never demanded wages as per the Minimum Wages Act as they are not organised. It was only after 2021, when their union officially got recognition, that they started demanding wages as per the Minimum Wages Act. Now, the management has cancelled the agency to which labour supply was outsourced. It is planning to outsource the jobs to a new agency on the condition that the old workers should not be deployed,” Mr. Rathod said.
