Haryana gives relief to roadways staff for strike period

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government has decided to consider the strike period of contractual employees of other departments, who had joined the strikes organised by the employees of Haryana Roadways to protest against the Kilometer Scheme, as “leave of kind due”.
The protest programmes by the contractual employees included mass leave on October 26, 2018, strike on October 30-31, 2018 and a national strike on January 8, 2020.
The leave of kind due, or the leave of a different kind, is granted retrospectively for absence from work, at the sole discretion of authorities.
The employees of Haryana state transport department had gone on strike from October 16, 2018 over the issue of hiring of around 700 private buses by the state transport department. They were claiming that the decision of hiring private buses is against the interest of public as well as the employees.
However, on November 2, 2018, on persuasion of a division bench of the high court headed by then chief justice Krishna Murari, the roadways employees had agreed to withdraw the strike. The HC had also ordered to suspend all the orders/ decisions taken by the Haryana government against the protesting employees and to allow them to join their duties immediately.