Low-paid employees want demands met

PESHAWAR: The Class-IV employees from various government departments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have warned of launching agitation from next month if the government failed to meet their demands.
Speaking at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Monday, President of All Pakistan Class-IV Employees Association of all departments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government Akbar Khan said the government was using delaying tactics to accept their demands that included the upgradation, allowance and incentives.
Accompanied by employees from all departments, he said that they had raised the demands at every platform and apprised Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan at Bani Gala but he too did nothing for them.
The PTI chief, he said, had directed the PTI-led provincial government to upgrade their pay scale but despite that they were deprived of rights.The association’s president said that protest demonstrations would be taken out in different districts including Peshawar, Abbottabad, Dera Ismail Khan, Lakki Marwat and Mardan, Mansehra and Upper Dir from April 06 to 11, 2015.
He said that protests would be staged by employees in Swat, Bannu, Haripur, Dir Lower, Buner and Battagram, Chitral and Malakand and Nowshera from 13 to 20 April.He said that class-IV employees would hold gathering at Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS-1) Peshawar City and the employees would move towards the provincial assembly to stage a sit-in for an indefinite period if their demands were not met.