
‘Virudhunagar municipality is not paying wages fixed by Collector to contract cleanliness workers’
The Hindu
Centre of Indian Trade Unions has complained that Virudhunagar municipality has not paid ₹428 a day wages fixed by Virudhunagar Collector for 2021-22, but ₹385 a day of the previous year, to its clean
Centre of Indian Trade Unions has complained that Virudhunagar municipality has not paid ₹428 a day wages fixed by Virudhunagar Collector for 2021-22, but ₹385 a day of the previous year, to its cleanliness workers under contract.
R. Balasubramanian, district secretary of CITU-affiliated Rural Development and Local Administration Department Employees’ Association said that Virudhunagar municipality has employed over 170 cleanliness on contract basis and they were paid only ₹385 a day wages, fixed for 2019-2020, till December 2021.

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