Class-IV employees seek 100pc raise in salary

PESHAWAR: The class-IV employees on Tuesday staged protest and demanded 100 percent increase in the salaries and presented a charter of demands.

The activists of the members of the All Pakistan Government Class-IV Employees Association from across the province participated in the protest. The protesters started a rally from the Government Hasnain Sharif Higher Secondary School No.1 and reached outside the building of the Provincial Assembly and staged a protest there.

President of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter of the association Akbar Khan Mohmand was leading the protesters. The speakers said that the salaries of class-IV employees were very low and prices of other commodities and items increased many fold. They said that their families were facing hardships to manage domestic budget in the present salaries.

The speakers asked the government to increase the salaries, announce timescale, merge the seven percent ad hoc relief in the basic pay, announce professional, medical, uniform and conveyance allowances, implement the 33 percent promotion quota for class-IV employees, allocate quota for the employees who have done primary school teacher, certified teachers and secondary school teachers courses, fix quota on affordable installments for allotment of plots in government housing schemes to class-IV employees and others.

They threatened to lock down their offices and boycott duties if their demands were not accepted at the earliest.