All employees of Punjab will go on a two-day collective leave on October 21-22, there will be demonstrations by employees and pensioners at district centers,

All employees of Punjab will go on a two-day collective leave on October 21-22, there will be demonstrations by employees and pensioners at district centers, and an expression of satisfaction at the Sangrur rally on October 10 - Employees and Pensioners Joint Front.

Hoshiarpur/Chandigarh 14 October ( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) : An online meeting of "Punjab Employees and Pensioners Joint Front" was held under the chairmanship of the front and convener, friend Dhanwant Singh Bhattal. The decisions of the meeting were announced in a press statement by the prominent leaders of the united front, Satish Rana, Karam Singh Dhanoa, Ranjit Singh Ranwa, Germanjit Singh, Kulwinder Singh Dhillon, Manjit Singh Basarke, Surinder Ram Kusa, Gagandeep Singh Bhullar, Sukhdev Singh Saini, Jasvir Singh Talwara, Prem Chawla, Radhe Sham, Surjit Singh Gagra, Resham Singh Khemuana, Karamjit Singh Bihla, Bobinder Singh, Harvinder Singh Bilga, who said that during the meeting, while the employees and pensioners expressed their satisfaction with the large-scale participation and solidarity in the grand rally held in Sangrur on October 10, the Punjab Chief Minister was strongly condemned for running away from holding a meeting with the Joint Coordination Committee in the first week of October. 

The leaders said that as part of the next struggle already announced by the Joint Coordination Committee, it was decided to start preparations on a large scale to make the two-day collective strike action on October 21-22 a success, so that the entire functioning of the government can be brought to a standstill for two days. On this occasion, the leaders demanded that the Punjab government, respecting the decision of the Honorable High Court, immediately pay the dearness allowance and its arrears, as per the recommendation of the Pay Commission, the pension of pensioners should be doubled by 2.59 times, the old pension should be restored, the policy of 16.5.2023 regarding unconditional regularization of all types of casual, daily wage, outsourced, enlisted employees should be revised and implemented, computer teachers should be merged in the education department and employees working in other departments including education and health under central schemes should be merged into departments and made regular, the honorarium/incentive of mid-day meal cook workers, ASHA workers and Aganwadi workers should be doubled immediately and they should be brought under the ambit of minimum wage, the letter dated 17.7.2020 regarding central pay scales and the letter dated 15.01.2015 regarding the probationary period and The letter dated 7.9.2016 should be withdrawn immediately, other allowances including rural allowance should be revised and implemented, ACP scheme should be restored immediately, vacant posts in various departments should be filled through regular recruitment, the amount of gratuity on the central pattern should be increased from Rs. 20 lakh to Rs. 25 lakh, court decisions in the interests of employees and pensioners should be generalized, the arrears of the 6th Pay Commission should be paid in one lump sum (in one installment), 125% dearness allowance should be taken as the basis while implementing the Pay Commission on 01.01.2016.