Monday, November 26, 2007

Retrenched employees of Kalinga Studio holds demo

Bhubaneswar: (visakeo) Retrenched employees of the State owned Kalinga
Studio on Friday took to street demanding reinstatement. The
Employees' Union alleged that the authorities without following the
procedure of law as well as the State Government policies, have
retrenched them. Meanwhile, the employees union led by president Naba
Mohanty general secretary Suren Bihari Dash met the Chief Minister
Naveen Patnaik and Industry and Law Minister Biswa Bhusan Harichandan
urging their intervention. They also a submitted a five-point charter
of demands to Chief Minister Patnaik and Minister Harichandan
demanding to withdraw the order of retrenchment immediately and
according to earlier announcement of Chief Minister and Law Minister,
the service condition of the studio employees to be remain unchanged.
"We have urged the Chief Minister and Industry Minister to review the
order of the Managing Director vide his letter No-3010/1224 dated on
December 15, 2006 and the condition being imposed by the management of
M/S Prasad Kalinga Film Laboratory Limited vide its letter no-19/5213
dated on November 9, 2006," union president Mohanty said. He further
demanded an inquiry to be made for the cause of the loss of the studio
and necessary action may be taken against the concerned officials.
Union also demanded that the State Government should direct the studio
management to arrange a joint meeting with the representative of the
employees' union and discuss various issues

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