Zomato strike enters 6th day

Amritsar: The ongoing strike by delivery boys of an online food company, Zomato, entered its sixth day on Friday. A two-member delegation of team leaders Jaswinder Singh from Chandigarh and Rattandeep Singh from Amritsar approached the Labour Commissioner, Amritsar, who fixed January 19 next date of hearing. They said the Labour Commissioner asked the company officials to bring a copy of service conditions on the next date of hearing. They said the company worker who was earlier earning between Rs 22,000 and 25,000 after 28 day of gruelling work, is now earning around Rs 13,000. TNS

‘No vaccine till we get regular jobs’

Tarn Taran: Employees of the Health Department under the banner of ‘Sehat Mulazim Sanghrash Committee’, Punjab, on Friday submitted a memorandum to Civil Surgeon Dr Rohit Mehta and warned the government that they would not take vaccine till their demands were accepted. A deputation of the local district unit, led by Gurbir Singh Pandori, state leader of the organisation, submitted a memorandum of demands to the Civil Surgeon. He said the main demands of the employees were regularisation of the jobs, decrease in probation period of 1,263 employees to two years, special increment to frontline workers performed duties against Covid-19 and withdrawal of criminal cases registered against health employees on the orders of Finance Minister Manpreet Badal. The committee warned the government of intensifying its agitation if their demands were not met. OC