Srinagar, Oct 31: JK Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) has called the termination of 15 Employees of RTC as illegal and unjustified and termed it arbitrary. In a statement Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) has said that dismissal of 15 employees (conductors) by the RTC Management is against the justice and law of the land and added that, as a matter of fact all these employees (Conductors) have already been imposed multiple punishments including fine, transfer, demotion and leave etc, at the time of occurrence of alleged offences and most of them were reinstated after satisfection of Management of RTC and were allowed to continue their work, But its unfortunate and surprising that all of sudden these poor employees have been dismissed from their services on the basis of issues already settled by the competent authority.

President EJAC Mohd Rafique Rather said,it is evident that the decision of sacking of these employees is against the set procedure, guidelines of CSR and added that the decision seems to have been taken to fulfill hidden agenda of Management to supress the employees of Corporation without providing the victims any oppertunity to defend themselves.

Rafique Rather asked the authorities of RTC that if these employees were liable to be terminated then why were they reinstated and allowed to continue their work in Corporation and added that as a set procedure suspended employees are reinstated only after conducting proper inquiry and finding his work and behaviour as satisfactory besides exonerating him off the charges levelled against him.

Rather said that there is no law which punishes a person twice for the same offence, crime if committed, but the way poor RTC employees (Conductors) have been punished is strange and arbitrary in nature. He said that reportedly few of the terminated employees have not conducted any bus from last many years as they were posted on other works by the Management, besides a court case of one of the conductor is still pending before Hon’ble Court but RTC management ignored all these facts for fulfilling their agenda to punish these poor employees for the reason best known to them, which is completely violation of justice and parameters of CSR. Rather said that these unjust,arbitrary and selective actions will create bitterness in relations between employer and employee which in turn will adversely affect the working in government offices and added that EJAC which is a representative plateform of 4.5 lakh government employees of JK can not remain mute spectator to these unjustified and illegal terminations.

He said that most of public sector units have been rendered defunct and employees have not been paid their due salaries for months together and instead of paying salaries to employees PSU managements are trying to find excuses to get rid of due salaries and the termination order of RTC employees is seen in this context only, Rather added.

Appealing Lt. Governor Shri Manoj Sinha, Worthy Chief Secretary Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta to personally intervene in such serious issues so that justice is delivered to effected employees who have been left to starvation along with their familes and urged for revocation of termination order at an earliest.