Ranchi:
The Jharkhand authorities on Sunday mentioned 11 of the 47 employees stranded in Cameroon in central Africa had been delivered to the state and efforts had been underway for the secure return of the remaining labourers.
The event comes after the state authorities filed FIRs towards a Mumbai-based agency and a few middlemen for alleged non-payment of wages to 47 employees from the state, who had been caught within the African nation.
“Eleven out of 47 migrant employees from Jharkhand, stranded in Cameroon, had been delivered to the state as per directions from Chief Minister Hemant Soren. All the employees had been despatched to their houses by the Labour Division. The return of the remaining 36 employees can be being ensured,” an announcement from the chief minister’s secretariat mentioned.
Earlier this month, the labour commissioner had filed the FIRs at Hazaribag, Bokaro and Giridih police stations towards middlemen and employers following a path from Soren who had acquired complaints that these employees didn’t obtain their wages for 3 months.
After the federal government took motion, the method to make fee of wages to the employees was initiated, the assertion mentioned.
“The management room staff has been repeatedly contacting the officers, the corporate and employees by electronic mail and telephone, and the entire excellent quantity of Rs 39.77 lakh has been paid to the employees,” the assertion mentioned.
It alleged that the employers and middlemen despatched these employees to Cameroon with out registering them beneath the Inter-State Migrant Staff (Regulation of Employment and Situations of Service) Act, 1979, and with out acquiring the required licence.
The employees drew the eye of the CM for non-payment of their wages for 3 months, following which the State Migrant Management Room contacted the employees and the employers.
The state authorities has sought the contract and wage particulars of the employees, apart from different paperwork.
Efforts had been being made to make sure the secure return of employees and the Ministry of Exterior Affairs has been knowledgeable about it, the assertion added.
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