The Federation, an INTUC affilate, led by Hussain Dalwai, MP, president, General secretary Rajesh Nimbalkar and vice-president B N P Shrivastava met the management of LIC recently and submitted a memorandum of demands to regularise these employees and also pay them their arrears immediately.
The apex court has last month directed the LIC to regularize these employees and also pay 50 percent of the back wages with consequential benefits.
Executive Director of the LIC, Sharad Shrivastava accepted the memorandum on behalf of the management and held discussions with the Federation, Nimbalkar added in his release.
The workers in the branches of LIC at various places in the country, had sought their absorption as regular and permanent service employees in their respective posts of the corporation.
They were working as "temporary, 'badli' and part-time workers" and have claimed that they had been appointed by the corporation management on daily wage basis against leave and other vacancies of its employees in Class III and IV posts in various branch offices and divisions of the company.
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