PANJIM: As many as 80 workers of the Sanjivani Sugar Factory from Monday have started protest near the factory demanding that their contract of employment be renewed and their salaries be paid even as trade union leaders called upon Agriculture Minister Ravi Naik to intervene to save the jobs and livelihood of the protestors.
The 80 workers are undertaking perennial and essential jobs in the sugar factory and whose term of contract was renewed every year have been shut and refused employment with effect from July 1, 2023.
A delegation of Sanjivani Sakhar Karkhana Workers’ Union affiliated to AITUC led by Christopher Fonseca on Monday called upon the Agriculture Minister to intervene to save the jobs and livelihood of 80 employees.
A representation was made on the heels of a notice issued by the Administrator Sattej Kamat, which stated that the State government/Directorate of Agriculture has directed the management of Sanjivani Sakhar Karkhana Workers’ Union to initiate a Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) for all the employees of the factory.
The Union has appealed to the government to protect the livelihood of all the factory workers, who are presently engaged in agricultural activities, maintenance of security of the company, running of the petrol pumps as well as looking after the civil, agricultural, manufacturing, engineering and the administration offices of the 52-year-old sugar factory at Dharbandora.
