Cuddalore :

Neyveli Lignite Corporation  (NLC) has enrolled 4,219 contract workers into the industrial cooperative service society (Indcoserve) after a gap of 16 years facilitating the process of regularising their services in a phased manner. The corporation until 1996, had enrolled more than 5,000 contract workers and regularised the services of more than 4,000 of them in a phased manner as and when vacancies arose.

It might be recalled that the Supreme Court in April this year upheld a Madras High Court order directing the corporation to evolve a common seniority list of the workers enrolled through Indcoserve and workers enrolled through private contractors while regularising their services. The corporation too submitted a petition to the court conveying that it had evolved a common seniority list of more than 4,000-odd workers following which the court disposed the case paving the way for the regularisation process.

In July this year, more than 25,000 regular and contract workers went on an indefinite strike to protest against the Union government’s decision to disinvest 5% of the shares of the corporation. The workers called off the strike on July 15 after the Centre accepted Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s proposal to buy the stakes through the state public sector undertakings.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Chennai> Seniority List / TNN / September 03rd, 2013