‘We will reduce work hours for female conductors’Road Transport Corporation employees staged a protest on Wednesday with a list of demands including timely payment of salaries, reduction in work hours and restarting operations for the entire fleet of BMTC buses. Later in the day, union leaders from the Joint Forum of Road Transport Corporation Employees’ associations, met the chairperson and MD of BMTC. Revappa, a union leader said, “During the interaction, we were assured that pending salaries will be credited in a week. Many female conductors had appealed to the State government seeking a return to pre-COVID-19 work hours. Nandiesha Reddy told The Hindu that a decision has already been taken to reduce work hours for female employees to eight hours.

Source: The Hindu February 10, 2021 20:30 UTC