Contract outsourcing staff stage protest

Malkajgiri: Contract outsourcing staff working in Malkajgiri district government hospital on Monday staged protest in front of the hospital condemning nonpayment of their salaries since last eight months.

Speaking to the media during their protest, employees expressed their anguish at nonpayment of their salaries for the last eight months. When the contract employees approached their supervisor Krishnaveni and asked about pending salaries, they were threatened with ouster from services. "How can we survive and feed our families if the salaries are not given for eight months?" an outsourced employee lamented.

She said that there used to be 20 outsourced employees earlier but some of them quit their jobs as they were vexed with delay in salary payments. At present, there are very few employees, but they have too much of workload. Contract employees demanded that the hospital authorities address their issues at the earliest and suspend the supervisor who had been harassing them.