Tag: Employees

WAPDA employees stage demo against police

KASUR - The local WAPDA employees observed a comlete strike and took a rally against the police for not arresting the accused involved in the attack on their office. Reportedly, the powerloom workers and local residents protested against the Wapda over unscheduled loadshedding in Kasur on Monday.
The protesters also set seven motorcycles, vans and the office record on fire. Four LESCO officials, Jehangir Khan, Fayyaz, Shaukat and Nasir Joiya were also injured during a scuffle

614 reinstated SNGPL employees still in the limbo

LAHORE - The 614 Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) employees reinstated by the federal government in January last year are still awaiting for their dues to be cleared by the company, Pakistan Today learnt on Sunday.
The federal government reinstated Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) 650 employees and approved all dues of the employees.
The dues were to be paid in three equal instalments. However, out of three instalments, SNGPL has only paid one instalment to the employees

FBR sacks three contract employees

ISLAMABAD - The government on Friday took another step inline with the apex court's order to terminate the contractual employment of the retired employees as it fired three low-ranked individuals. However, no step was taken to terminate the services of FIA Director General Waseem Ahmed and others. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) terminated the services of the three employees after Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani issued directives to expedite the implementation process. The

CM takes notice of misuse of govt vehicles

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken note of the fact that a number of retired officers are using official vehicles without authorisation while a large number of employees i.e. gardeners, drivers and police constables are also serving them. Similarly, the serving officers are using vehicles and services of such employees beyond their entitlement.
Punjab CM has directed that all administrative secretaries, heads of attached departments; autonomous,

Fehmida resists SC orders to terminate contractual employees

ISLAMABAD - As the executive-judiciary standoff over the issue of contractual employees deepens further with the government paying no heed to Supreme Court orders for terminating such employees, National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza has referred the case of eight such NA employees to the Finance Committee of the House with a plea that "parliament may by law regulate the recruitment and the conditions of service of persons appointed to the Secretarial staff of either House".

No ouster, or end to hiring of contractual employees

ISLAMABAD - The controversy over FIA Director General Waseem Ahmed's re-employment on contract after his retirement is turning into a serious standoff between the judiciary and the executive, as the government is not only dilly-dallying in implementing the Supreme Court's directions to terminate all such re-employments, but also continues to rehire retired officials besides extending the tenures of some top state officials.
A committee of secretaries of the Establishment

LDA employees’ plots quota scam – Balloting restrained

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) is unlikely to decide the fate of plots of its employees on its own terms, discarding LDA staffers' demands. All was set to dole out the plots through balloting on Thursday (today) but the court issued restraining orders on Wednesday. An LDA employee, Muhammad Khalid, petitioned in the civil court, saying that LDA should be stopped holding balloting for employees' plots on March 10 as he apprehended that balloting will not do the justice

Teaching hospitals’ employees to join anti-polio campaign

Lahore - The Punjab Health Department has asked all teaching hospitals to provide at least 100 employees each to take part in the polio eradication campaign starting shortly. The health department has also made a similar demand to district headquarters hospitals (DHQs) to assign employees for the same cause. A circular has been distributed from the health department to all teaching hospitals and DHQs. Hospitals and DHQs subsequently started preparing lists of the employees they can

Sindh Secretariat employees enjoy unannounced holiday

KARACHI - The lower grade employees of the Sindh Secretariat enjoyed an unannounced holiday on Thursday following Karachi Transport Ittehad's strike call to protest the recent raise in fuel prices. The lower staff of almost all administrative departments of the provincial secretariat remained absent from their respective offices following the unavailability of public transport on the city's roads. The corridors of Tughlaq House, secretariat's new building, old KDA building and other

Three SHC contractual employees get the boot

KARACHI - The SHC on Wednesday dismissed three of its contractual employees from service, in pursuance of the Supreme Court orders regarding contractual staff. The removed officers included SHC Additional Registrar Muhammad Safdar, and readers Muhammad Hashim and Shafiq, and had already been served a one-month notice. The fate of three other contract employees would be decided by the SHC administration committee comprising senior judges.

PSM employees take a sigh of relief

ISLAMABAD - Employees of Pakistan Steel Mill (PSM) were relieved following intervention of Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) into the tax exemption case. According to a statement issued here on Tuesday, the FTO directed Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to ensure uniformity of treatment to employees of all public sector organisations.
In a petition before the FTO, it was asserted, on behalf of employees of the Pakistan Steel Mill (PSM), that whereas organizations such as Pakistan National

Six government employees including teachers suspended

HAFIZABAD - Hafizabad Education Executive District Officer (EDO) Sohail Azhar Khan has suspended six employees including teachers for being absent from their duty. Reportedly, the EDO paid a surprise visit to the Government Higher Secondary School Sukheki and found a subject specialist (SS) Naeem, two elementary school teachers (EST), two clerks Anwar and Azmat and a laboratory attendant Tanveer Abbas absent from the duty and suspended all of them form the service immediately.
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PPP-PML-N talks – Govt plans to halve salary raise given to...

ISLAMABAD - The government on Wednesday shared its plans for expenditure cuts with the PML-N team by disclosing that it planned to halve the increase in salaries of government employees in this year's budget for the remaining four months of the current fiscal year, and reduce the Rs 70 billion-flood relief fund by Rs 10 billion.
A source said the PML-N team, however, demanded an across-the-board salary cut, including slashing of salaries of parliamentarians, ministers, the prime

CII forms body to oversee salaries of devolved ministries’ employees

ISLAMABAD - The Council of Common Interest (CCI) on Tuesday formed a committee headed by secretary finance to devise mechanism for payment of salaries to the employees of all the ministries devolved to the provinces. Finance Secretary Dr Waqar Masood told journalists that the committee was constituted to workout financial impact in terms of salaries of the employees.
He said the issue of subsidy on agricultural tube wells as well as privatization of generation and distribution

Status of sacked employees reviewed

ISLAMABAD - Cabinet's Sub-Committee on Friday asked the Defence, Education, Industries and Housing ministries to give the implementation status of the Presidential Act, 2010 that restored the sacked employees of the said ministries.
Labour and Manpower Minister Khursheed Ahmed Shah chaired the meeting on Friday, also attended by Industries and Production Minister Mir Hazar Khan Bijrani, to review the reinstatement cases of various ministries' sacked employees.
The

Devolution – provinces want ministries, not employees

ISLAMABAD - Disowned by the chief secretaries of all the four provinces, the employees of the devolved ministries of education, culture, social welfare and special education and livestock were placed in the 'surplus pool' by the Implementation Commission on Thursday.
Earlier, the chief secretaries had told the commission that they lacked resources to accommodate employees after the first phase of devolution, a source within the commission told Pakistan Today. Chaired by Chairman

Railway employees protest downsizing, PR privatisation

LAHORE - Pakistan Railways (PR) employees on Wednesday brought out a rally from Railway Headquarter to Divisional Superintendent (DS) Lahore office to protest against the proposed downsizing and privatization of the department and blocked Allama Iqbal Road for some time by burning tyres.
The protesters chanted slogans against the railway administration and pledged that they will not let any body to privatize Pakistan Railways. They demanded of the government not to privatize the