Tag: Salaries

YDA slams stopping payment of doctors’ salaries

LAHORE - Young Doctors Association (YDA) Central Office Bearers including Dr Rana Sohail, Dr Salman Kazmi, Dr Aslam Rao, Dr Khalid Idrees, Dr Talha Sherwani and Dr Wajid Wazir in a combined press statement strongly protested against decision of the principal Punjab Dental Hospital to stop payment of salaries of FCPS postgraduate trainee doctors for the last two months.
The officer bearers said that the principal indulging in nepotism and the decision to stop payment of salaries

Double salaries are not the limit for cash-starved policemen!

LAHORE - Although Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif doubled salaries of policemen, burdening the provincial exchequer to a great extent, in order to eliminate corruption from the police department, but the decision made no difference, as policemen leave no opportunity for looting the general public, Pakistan Today has learnt.
A large number of people have to face rude behaviour of policemen on a daily basis. From registration of cases to acquittal, at every step policemen

Rationalising salaries can lead to reinstatement

KARACHI - The management of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) can reinstate its sacked employees by simply "rationalising" the salaries of the company's newly-appointed executives, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources explained that the company started facing an acute funds shortage soon after the transfer of control to Abraaj Capital, whose management team brought with it a team of executives on extremely handsome salary packages and attractive perks. While the power

Honour your promise PM! – FDE teachers want promotions and better...

ISLAMABAD - The teachers affiliated with Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) have been waiting for enhanced salaries, promotions and upgrading of institute since the prime minister's announcement to same effect, three months ago.
The FDE teachers seek implementation on the prime minister's statement of early November, in which he had pledged enhanced salaries and promotions for them.
President Islamabad Teachers Association, Azhar Awan on Sunday while talking to Pakistan

Reward for KP Police, 50% raise in salaries

PESHAWAR - Acknowledging the Police department's services in the war against militancy, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Saturday announced 50 percent raise in provincial police officials' salaries. Addressing a ceremony held in Peshawar Police Line, Hoti commended police for its frontline role in fighting militancy and rendering unprecedented sacrifices in protecting the citizens. He announced 50 percent increase in the basic pay of the provincial police as

‘Backbone of Health Dept’ wants salaries released

KARACHI - Members of the All-Pakistan National Lady Health Worker (LHW) Employees Association, which is part of the women's wing of the Pakistan Paramedical Staff Association, protested on Saturday outside the Karachi Press Club against delays in the issuance of salaries and petrol allowance.
The association's provincial president, Khairunnisa Ehsan, demanded that the workers' salaries be released immediately. "If the government has money to cover non-essential expenses, why does

PR employees protest delay in salaries

LAHORE - Employees of Pakistan Railways (PR) on Wednesday protested against the failure of PR to pay their salaries in three consecutive months, inflation and the cutting of traveling allowance.
Dozens of workers from loco shops, power house and steel shop under the Railway Workers Union leadership staged a demonstration outside Divisional Superintendent (DS) workshops office, threatening to extend the protest if their demands were not taken seriously.
"The ministry is

NISTE workers call for 2 months’ blocked salaries

ISLAMABAD - The daily-wage employees of National Institute of Science and Technical Education (NISTE) staged a demonstration on Monday against the high-ups at the NISTE demanding their salaries due for over two months.
As many as 70 workers of NISTE, a subsidiary of Education Ministry, held the protest on Faiz Ahmad Faiz Road outside the institute's office. They chanted slogans against the NISTE Director General Shaigan Sharif Malik, who they said was responsible for

PSM hires five officers on high salaries to help counter crises

KARACHI: The new administration of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) has hired five high salaried officers on contract basis amid the entity's severe financial crunch.
The administration has hired Noor A Memon as the administration director, Khursheed Abbas as the security general manager, Brig (Retd) Rao Wahab as the director in administration, Razzaq Baloch as the deputy general manager in administration and also hired a person as the financial adviser.
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