ISLAMABAD: Several workers of the Dandot Cement factory held a protest demonstration in the Islamabad press club against their forcefully sackings from the factory.
Talking to MM News, the protestors said that Federal Law Minister Forough Naseem’s brother and nephew of Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar bought the factory together and fired several workers.
According to the protestors, on the directions of owners, the Dandot Cement factory administration had sacked 277 workers. “While preparations for the dismissal of another 230 employees are almost complete,” they said.
They claimed that forced dismissals of workers had become a norm during the crisis.
“We are receiving death threats from the owners of the factory, Forough Naseem’s brother and nephew of Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar forced us to stop the protest,” the protestors alleged.
“The purpose of closing the factory is to make 230 more families jobless. Our 277 families are now unemployed, children are not going to school, house rent is not being paid, rations have run out in the houses due to which stoves have become cold,” they added.
The protestors said the Punjab government had issued a notification to protect the jobs and salaries for the workers by restricting employers from firing them, but the administration had flouted those orders.
The protesters demanded the prevention of workers’ termination, payment of salaries, registration of all the citizens under social security and old age benefit schemes.
