KOCHI: The non-teaching staff at the Ernakulam Government Medical College (EMC) are set to warn the state government over its lethargy in making 350 staff at the hospital permanent in government service despite creating 350 posts in the government cadre.
They have called a token strike on Tuesday without disrupting essential services.
A total of 148 faculty positions and 202 non-teaching staff posts have been created by the state Cabinet a few months ago but the government is yet to absorb qualified existing staff.
The non-teaching staff at the college are sore at the fact that 25 personnel among them who are eligible to be absorbed into the government service are not benefited even after creating 202 posts as they are in excess of this number.
“Another 25 posts have to be created to enable them continue and we want the government to do it,” said Vipin Das, convener of the joint labour union at the medical college.
The union is agitated over the fact that even before the staff are integrated into the government service, notices are being served on them informing that they have been turned into contract staff from the permanent posts under the Cooperative Academy of Professional Education (CAPE).
“The other day a peon-cum-attender, K.R. Muraleedharan, was served notice making him contract staff because he crossed the age of 56. Under CAPE, he can continue as permanent staff till 58,” he said.
