The government has decided to regularise all the daily wagers and contract employees of National Highway Authority (NHA), who have completed at least two years of contract service till January 2011. It was decided in a meeting of the sub-committee of the federal cabinet on contract and daily wages employees held here on Thursday.
In the meeting the issue of regularisation of daily wagers and contract employees of the National Highway Authority (NHA) was extensively deliberated and at the end it was decided to regularise all these employees. The meeting was attended by the Federal Minister for Communications Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan Khalil, Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower and Religious Affairs Syed Khurshid Shah, Federal Minister for Industries and Production Mir Hazar Khan Bajarani, Member National Assembly Mehreen Bhutto, Federal Secretary Communications Anwar Ahmad Khan, Joint Secretary Communications Mathar Niaz Rana, Chairman NHA Muhammad Junaid, Member Administration Naseer Ahmad Rana and other high officials.
The participants of the meeting were briefed over regularisation of contract and daily wages employees in various public and private departments and after that it was decided to regularise daily wages and contract employees of NHA. It was decided that the contract employees who have completed at least two years of contract service till January 2011 or more will soon be regularised.
The Federal Minister for Communications Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan Khalil while talking to media after the meeting, said that despite financial constraints and other problems, the government has taken this historic step which will improve economic conditions of contract and daily wages employees.
Minister said that the government had to face numerous problems at various fronts but the government has tackled them successfully and now it intends to provide relief to the people in every sector. Arbab Alamgir further said that the regularisation of daily wages and contract employees of National Highway Authority will definitely put extra burden on the Authority but will benefit a lot of poor families.
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