Workers' union to challenge fresh postings in KMC, TMCs
A representative body of workers in the local bodies has decided to approach the court over dubious appointments and postings in the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and the Town Municipal Corporations (TMCs).
Sajjan Union said trainee officers have been appointed on senior posts while many senior officers have been sidelined and forced to stay home.
Sajjan Union Central President Syed Zulfikar Shah has directed the union's legal team to prepare a petition for filing in the court against the illegal recruitments, adjustments, and postings in KMC and TMCs over the past three months.
In a statement issued on Thursday, he said that the legal discourse will be taken without bias, regardless of whether it affects any union official, worker, leader, or their family member. Shah said that the Sindh government has recruited municipal commissioners, accounts officers, and engineers through the Sindh Public Service Commission and appointed them to senior positions despite them still being under training. This has resulted in senior officers being sidelined. A petition is being prepared against these trainee officers, which will be filed in court along with the affected officers.
The union is also working towards implementing a court judgment that requires the deployment of Grade 19 SCUG officers and later Grade 18 officers, after removing Municipal Commissioners appointed in Grade 17 without an approved Schedule of Establishment. Affected officers have been asked to contact the union immediately.
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