Daily wagers to move court for regularisation

Islamabad

Agitated by the rejection of the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) summary on the regularisation of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) daily-wage teachers, the Young Teachers Association has decided to petition the court of law for relief.

Of late, the CADD had filed a summary with the prime minister’s office for approval suggesting the Federal Public Service Commission interview for the daily wagers working in BPS-16 and above and interview by a departmental committee for those working in BPS-15 and below.

Also, it had proposed that the employees passing the FPSC interview be offered permanent jobs on the basis of the ‘one-candidate-one-seat’ formula.

However, the summary didn't sit well with the PM's office, which ordered the filling of the BPS-16 and BPS-17 permanent positions eyed by daily wagers through ‘open competition’ i.e. written test by the FPSC.

Also as shown in the orders, five additional marks will be given to the daily wagers qualifying that test.

A YTA leader rejected the development and said the PM office’s discriminatory move would be challenged in the high court.

“This is not acceptable to us (daily wagers). We’ll take the legal course against the discrimination meted out to us for service regularisation in the shape of written test after serving schools for many years,” he told ‘The News’.

The YTA leader said the boycott of classes by daily-wage teachers was also under consideration.

He said having engaged a lawyer to plead their case in the court, the association had begun collecting money from daily wagers for his fee and that the petition was likely to be filed with the high court soon.

Currently, the FDE overseen by the CADD has more than 1,000 daily-wage staff members, both teaching and non-teaching, at its educational institutions in the capital. They’ve been employed by the FDE for around eight years.