more-inThe functioning of the Palakkad unit of Instrumentation Limited (IL) has been severely hampered by the strike by its workforce, which would enter the fifth day on Monday. A conciliatory meeting convened by the District Labour Officer on Saturday between the striking workers’ union and the company management failed with the workers insisting on salary revision based on the 2007 scale. The management representatives made it clear that the Palakkad unit has no independent powers to decide on salaries and perks. Despite good performances by the employees of the Palakkad unit, the company never gave them festival allowance even during Onam, they said. It was the accumulating losses of the mother unit that had landed the Palakkad unit in crisis.

Source: The Hindu August 27, 2017 19:18 UTC