Reinstatement of CEC employees: TCP union seeking Prime Minister's intervention

Employees of Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) are seeking Prime Minister's intervention to stop the reinstatement of Cotton Export Corporation of Pakistan's (CEC) employees.
According to a letter sent to Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani Prime Minister by Muhammad Shahnawaz General Secretary and Dawar Shahzad President (CBA TCP) that during the year 1997, the Economic Co-ordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet has decided to merge the functions of Rice Export Corporation of Pakistan (RECP) & Cotton Export Corporation of Pakistan (CEC) into TCP and wind up these two entities. At the time of winding-up of RECP and CEC the management of these organisations offered Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS)/ Golden Hand Shake to their employees.
All the employees of both these defunct Corporations opted for VRS, except few ones who were also retried with the benefit of VRS under NIRC, Karachi Bench decision and retiring benefits under Court decision. Later on, in the year 2001 the Honourable High Court of Sindh sanctioned the order of merger of these two Corporations into TCP, under a scheme of merger which also provides that no employee was at the pay roll of these Corporations at the time of their merger.
Now, the Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Act-2010 was introduced for reinstatement of those employees/workers, who were appointed during the period from 1st November 1993 to 30th day of November 1996 (both days inclusive) and were dismissed, removed or terminated from service or given forced golden hand shake during the period from the 1st day of November 1996 to the 31st Day of December 1998.
According to letter it is on record that most of the employees of defunct Rice RECP and CEC, even after getting the Retiring Benefits under VRS have approached Sub-Committee of the Cabinet for the Sacked Employees for their reinstatement, whereas the cases of most of them have already been rejected by the Review Board for Sacked Employees being not covered under the provisions of Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Act-2010.
However, reportedly, the Sub-Committee of the Cabinet has decided to reinstate 27 employees of defunct CEC, whose date of appointment does not coincide with period/dates specified in the Sacked Employees (Reinstate-ment) Act-2010, besides they have also availed the benefits of VRS.
"In case these employees are reinstated by the Sub-Committee, it will open a Pandora's box of similar requests from other thousands of employees of defunct CEC and RECP, whose services were dispensed with them with benefits of VRS which will over burden the TCP and its existence shall be questioned with such a huge manpower", CBA's representatives showed concerned in the letter.
The reinstatement of such ex-employees who are not covered under the Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Act-2010 will create frustration amongst the educated youths who are in search of jobs, they added. TCP Employees' Union (CBA) has approached the Ministry of Commerce as well as Chairman of the Sub-Committee of the Cabinet for not making decisions regarding reinstatement of such ex-employees of defunct CEC and RECP, who are not covered under the provisions of the Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Act-2010, but, nothing has been heard from them so far.
According to letter, due to above situation, there is great unrest amongst the employees of TCP as their basic rights shall be violated and their career planning future shall be at stake. The Corporation shall undue the over burdened besides the promotions channel of present employees shall also be blocked due to this situation of overstaffing. The existence of TCP shall be in danger due to overstaffing.
The CBA has requested Prime Minister that Sub-Committee of the Cabinet for Sacked Employees may be directed not to make any decision as it will not only destroy the career of employees but also lead to winding up the Corporation which is already overstaffed.