Over the last few weeks, YATN members have been involved in surveying the housekeeping staff of the Academic blocks. The purpose of this exercise was to collect raw data about their wages, EPF and ESI status. We were also trying to ascertain how many of the staff had children who required academic support.
This data has now been collected and some basic concerns have been identified:
1. Many of the staff have never read their contract details.
2. Most do not have access to any document that can act as proof for their PF and SI (Provident fund, State Insurance)
3. There is a significant discrepancy in wages between the staff of AB2 and AB1.
We will update this post with the data shortly. There are other issues as well, however these are not evident from the data (hearsay only). The one condition that seems most serious out of these is:
1. There appears to be a culture of firing and re-hiring workers, in order to make them ineligible for bonuses.
In order to work towards fixing said issues, we are holding a meeting this Saturday (29/10/16) to discuss the roadmap forward.
Meeting details:
Venue: LHC Cafeteria
Time: 11 am
All are welcome.
We are very glad to say that the SRC will be in attendance at this meeting. It is good to know that our elected representatives are here for the community beyond the students as well.
