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Around 20,000 sales promotion employees of state-based pharmaceutical companies will hold a rally from Rani Baug in Byculla to Azad Maidan on January 2 demanding enforcement of the Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act,1976.
This is a fight for our legal identity. Appointment letters for employees should be on the basis of submission of Form-A,which makes labour laws applicable. By refusing to submit Form-A,pharmaceutical companies are treating their employees as bonded labourers, alleged K B Kadam,general secretary of Federation of Medical and Sales Representatives Association of India (FMRAI).
Kadam added that such practices by pharmaceutical companies affect medicine distribution. When employees are treated as bonded labourers,there is a high possibility of them being involved in bribery for trade and prescription of medicines, he said.
A delegation from FMRAI and Centre of Indian Trade Union is expected to meet the state labour minister on Tuesday to convey their demands.
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