Contractual Workers

A 55-year-old contractual worker allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself inside the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus in southwest Delhi, police said on Tuesday.

Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar "chose not to respond" to a note asking him to constitute a committee to probe allegations of molestation of women contractual workers at a Delhi government hospital in Burari.

A woman, working as a housekeeping staff on a contract basis in Burari Government Hospital, has accused her manager and three supervisors of molesting and harassing her and two other employees.

In the last few years, courts across India have held in various judgments that maternity leave and its consequential benefits should be extended to contractual employees.

All sanitation workers will be paid salaries on time and jobs of contractual workers will be regularised if the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is voted to power in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), senior party leader Manish Sisodia said.

The Congress will provide fixed jobs for contractual workers, bring back the old pension scheme (OPS) and ensure timely promotions if it comes to power in Gujarat, former party chief Rahul Gandhi said on Sunday.

A 59-year-old contractual worker of the Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station was killed in a tiger attack in Maharashtra, an official said on Thursday.

Some 20 police personnel were injured when a protest staged by contractual workers of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Thermal Power Plant in Madwa in Janjgir-Champa district of Chhattisgarh turned violent on Sunday.

Only 39 percent of Assam's tea garden workers are permanent while 61 percent are contractual labourers, a study by Oxfam India said.

The Gauhati High Court has stayed the termination of 252 Junior Assistants (JA) who had been engaged on a contractual basis to update Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC), monitored by the Supreme Court.

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Central government and others to treat as a representation, the plea seeking directions to grant paid leaves to all class of women employees including daily wage, contractual and outsourced workers during their menstruation period.

Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC) has invited applications to fill 34 posts of Sub Inspector of Excise and 201 posts of Soil Conservation Extension Worker on contractual basis.

A 32-year-old contractual worker at the state-run NTPC in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida on Thursday set his arm on fire, alleging he was not paid his salary due for six months, including the lockdown period, police said.

A 42-year-old contractual doctor, who was working with Delhi government's National Health Mission, died yesterday of coronavirus.

The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) office at Eden Gardens was shut down for a week, after a temporary worker tested positive for the coronavirus on Saturday.

A 55-year-old contractual worker allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself inside the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus in southwest Delhi, police said on Tuesday.

Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar "chose not to respond" to a note asking him to constitute a committee to probe allegations of molestation of women contractual workers at a Delhi government hospital in Burari.

A woman, working as a housekeeping staff on a contract basis in Burari Government Hospital, has accused her manager and three supervisors of molesting and harassing her and two other employees.

In the last few years, courts across India have held in various judgments that maternity leave and its consequential benefits should be extended to contractual employees.

All sanitation workers will be paid salaries on time and jobs of contractual workers will be regularised if the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is voted to power in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), senior party leader Manish Sisodia said.

The Congress will provide fixed jobs for contractual workers, bring back the old pension scheme (OPS) and ensure timely promotions if it comes to power in Gujarat, former party chief Rahul Gandhi said on Sunday.

A 59-year-old contractual worker of the Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station was killed in a tiger attack in Maharashtra, an official said on Thursday.

Some 20 police personnel were injured when a protest staged by contractual workers of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Thermal Power Plant in Madwa in Janjgir-Champa district of Chhattisgarh turned violent on Sunday.

Only 39 percent of Assam's tea garden workers are permanent while 61 percent are contractual labourers, a study by Oxfam India said.

The Gauhati High Court has stayed the termination of 252 Junior Assistants (JA) who had been engaged on a contractual basis to update Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC), monitored by the Supreme Court.

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Central government and others to treat as a representation, the plea seeking directions to grant paid leaves to all class of women employees including daily wage, contractual and outsourced workers during their menstruation period.

Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC) has invited applications to fill 34 posts of Sub Inspector of Excise and 201 posts of Soil Conservation Extension Worker on contractual basis.

A 32-year-old contractual worker at the state-run NTPC in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida on Thursday set his arm on fire, alleging he was not paid his salary due for six months, including the lockdown period, police said.

A 42-year-old contractual doctor, who was working with Delhi government's National Health Mission, died yesterday of coronavirus.

The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) office at Eden Gardens was shut down for a week, after a temporary worker tested positive for the coronavirus on Saturday.