Class-IV employees want PHC verdict on duty hours implemented

TIMERGARA: The Class-IV employees working in government departments on Monday asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to implement the Peshawar High Court (PHC)’s verdict related to eight hours duty for watchmen at schools across the province.

The demand was made during a meeting of the All Class-IV Employees Association, Lower Dir chapter, held at the district council hall in Balambat with its provincial president Akbar Khan Momand in the chair.

Association’s Punjab chapter general secretary Ijaz Ahmad Diwana, Gujranwala president Muhammad Riaz Qadri, KP general secretary Ashfaq Ahmad Khattak, district presidents from Chitral, Buner, Nowshera, Malakand and over 300 Class-IV employees attended the event.

Provincial parliamentary secretary Local Government and Member Provincial Assembly Saeed Gul was chief guest while Timergara Tehsil Nazim Riaz Muhammad represented district government.

The association provincial president Akbar Khan Momand and others said the PHC had fixed eight hours duty for watchmen but the decision was not being implemented in schools and hospitals.

They demanded restoration of Class-IV employees’ wards quota in jobs, recruitment of second watchman at schools, approval of timescale formula, compensatory amount to class-IV employees on polling day and their exemption from security guard duty.

Member Provincial Assembly Saeed Gul promised the participants to raise their genuine issues on the assembly floor.