Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)
Bangalore, Oct 5: The seven day-old strike of the employees manning the government’s ambitious ‘108’ ambulance services across the state ended on Tuesday October 4, after an agreement was reached between the employees and GVK-EMRI, which runs the ambulance service. In a written undertaking, the company agreed to meet most of the demands of its employees.
Salient features of the agreement are hike in salary by about ten percent, transfer within the home districts, re-appointment of employees dismissed on flimsy grounds, exemption from night duty for women employees, among others.
One of the most important demands of the employees was to reckon them as government servants. As they were convinced that being employees of GVM-EMRI, a private organization, they cannot be absorbed into government service all of a sudden, the employees agreed to drop this demand, it is learnt.