Shillong,April 20: The Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited (MeECL) employees have threatened to agitate for the delay in releasing their pending salary.
They plan to resort to a sit-in-demonstration if the management fails to release the salary for March by Friday.
The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the Coordination Committee of Registered MeECL (Employees) Associations and Unions (CCORMAU) on Thursday.
“The following resolution was adopted unanimously that salary for the month of March 2023 be released latest by tomorrow April 21, failing which the employees shall be forced to go for democratic sit-in-demonstration on the next working day in the respective offices,” CCORMAU president PK Shullet said in a letter to the Chairman cum Managing Director of MeECL Sanjay Goyal.
The organisation also wanted the salary for the subsequent months to be released in accordance with the Code on Wages, 2019, failing which there will be democratic sit-in demonstrations on the next working day.
Shullet referred to Sec 17 of the Code on Wages, 2019, which stipulates that “The employer shall pay or cause to be paid wages to the employees, engaged on monthly basis, before the expiry of the seventh day of the succeeding month.”
According to Shullet, many correspondences had been made to the CMD, requesting for timely disbursement of salaries and a memorandum dated January 9, 2023, had also been submitted to him.
“However, it is regrettable to say that in spite of our repeated pleas, there has been habitual delay and the salary of March 2023 is yet to be released,” he said.
