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This is an archive article published on April 8, 2016
Chandigarh: Nurses dare PGI to release pay or face music
The letter stated that the salary of the nurses has been withheld on the decision of a committee chaired by the PGI director.
The Nurses’ Welfare Association has submitted a letter to the director of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research asking him to immediately release the salary of the nurses.
The PGI administration has stopped the salary of the 575 newly appointed nurses for allegedly changing their duty working hours without the administration’s approval.
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The letter stated that the salary of the nurses has been withheld on the decision of a committee chaired by the PGI director. “…approval to the decision of this committee for stopping the pay of nurses is highly a violation of the rules on the part of the Director PGI…,” reads the letter.
The letter further stated that PGI has also stopped the salary of those nurses who joined the institute in 2014 and were asked by the administration to work for 6,6,12 hours, though their appointment letters mention eight-hour shift daily.
The letter further stated: “The pay has been withheld and the nurses were not informed that the salary would be stopped. Instead the officials issued an order only after the salary was stopped.”
Defending their decision to change the working hours, association members said the administration intends to exploit the labour of the newly appointed nurses by taking more work from them beyond the schedule of 40-hour per week.
“So the PGI Nurses’ Welfare Association request you to immediately release the pay of the nurses and not to escalate the situation leading to unpleasant consequences, which are not good for the institute as well as the nursing staff and the patients,” it said in the letter.
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