Samooga Neethi Katchi leader N. Panneerselvam has filed a caveat petition at the Supreme Court to appoint 7 people as drivers and provide the allocated payments including the arrears.
Coimbatore: This petition was a sequence of a case filed by Jayabal, the president of the Social Justice Sanitation Workers Union, at the Madras High Court in 2007.
According to sources, it was informed that seven workers were recruited as sanitary workers but were made to work as drivers. Since then they have been paid the salary allotted for sanitary workers and not that of drivers.
In this connection, Jayabal who is working as a driver in the Coimbatore Corporation (on a shift basis) petitioned Madras High Court to grant them the proper pay scale and requested to authorize the driver's position to six other people.
In 2014 the Madras high court ordered the Coimbatore Corporation Commission to appoint 7 people as drivers and provide the allocated payments including the arrears.
In this concern, with high possibilities for the Coimbatore Corporation Commission to appeal to the Supreme Court to reconsider this case, Samooga Neethi Katchi leader N. Panneerselvam has filed a caveat petition at the Supreme Court.
While talking to Simplicity, Panneerselvam said, "We have filed a caveat petition against the Coimbatore Corporation and have received approval for the same from the court. Since 2007 our workers have been denied an approved salary. They were initially recruited for sanitary work and later were made to do driver's jobs yet they received a payment assigned for sanitary workers and not that of drivers.
Even after the High Court's order, the corporation commission has failed to provide those workers with the arrears since 2007. Following this, the chances for the corporation commission to appeal to the Supreme Court are high. Hence we have filed this caveat petition that forbids them from deciding without our knowledge."