Union's leader Kanwar Singh Yadav said they met the minister over various demands including regularising contractual employees, removing pay anomalies among state government staff and giving Punjab-pattern scales to the employees.
"We had a fruitful meeting. The minister listened to us patiently and assured to take up our demands with the Chief Minister, besides arranging a meeting with him," Yadav said.
He strongly objected to a recent circular by the General Administration Department, which states that no mass Casual Leave will be allowed to employees for participating in dharnas, demonstrations, strikes or agitations.
The circular had also drawn sharp reaction from the Opposition with senior INLD leaders Abhay Singh Chautala and Ashok Arora describing it as an attack on the "democratic and constitutional rights" of the employees to protest.
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The Sarv Karamchari Sangh, another body representing the employees, too, strongly opposed the circular today and demanded its immediate withdrawl.
Members of the body protested any attempt to "curb" their rights, with its state unit chief Dharambir Phogat saying, no employee wants to protest, but sometimes circumstances force them to take the step so that their voice is heard.
"There are many issues including wage, pay anomalies and those pertaining to labour laws. Besides, the government is slowly moving towards privatising bodies like the Haryana Roadways and the power sector, which we will oppose tooth and nail," Phogat said.
"The state government has started to take many steps, like opening the doors of privatising the Roadways, without talking to the stakeholders," he alleged.