Substitute health workers who were recruited for the hospitals of the Government Medical College through employment exchange as 1991, citing government orders and judicial orders, require their inclusion in the contribution pension plan (CPS).
Regarding their demands and the development that took place over the years to include them in the CPS, the Medical Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu, all workers of the sanitation workers and the nursing assistant, presented a report with the head of state committee Gagandep Singep Singep.
M. Venkatachalam, founding president of the Union, who narrated the events, said that as of 1991, 384 ‘Substitute health workers’ were recruited to help the workers of Group D employees in the Hospitals of Medical College in Chennai, Thanjavur, Tuchi.
His recruitment was to download the work of group D workers when they were absent for the service. As their positions were considered temporary, several associations and unions demanded regularization, pension and license benefits for them. As for its demands, the state government, in 2007, through the Government’s order 149 made the 384 permanent workers with the condition that they must complete 10 years of service before January 1, 2006.
As the workers’ services were regularized only after 2003, the notification of the year was granted for the new pension scheme, the government said they would be included under CPS.
After that, Go 408 was issued by the State Finance Department in 2009 to include five years of service before 2007, the year became permanent, to consider them eligible for the pension.
After this, the Association transferred to the Superior Court of Madras for including them in the old pension plan, since it was the government that did not make them permanent for those who had joined the service even in 1991, Venkatachalam said.
As the Government, against the Order, a bank of two HC Matras Judges ordered that substitute workers were included in CPS Item, he said.
But, after judicial orders, the government again denied the pension citing the condition of CPS that substitute workers have not completed 30 years of service, said Hey.
It was true that workers have not fulfilled the 30 -year service status and that could not be their fault, since it was the state that recruited them as temporary workers. “If the same government has made them permanent seven to eight years ago, eligible will be declared,” he added.
How could the government error load endure? Even after several developments that assured the 384 workers their labor rights, the state government did not yet provide their pension, he said.
When registering the pleas of the workers and their complaints, a report had submitted the leg to the CPS committee with the belief that their demands would be considered for their inclination, he said.
Published – May 13, 2025 09:51 PM IST
