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LIC – Absorbs 1200 Part-Time Employees to Regular Cadre
State Owned Life Insurance Corporation [LIC] in India has regularized 1200 employees who have been working as part-time sweepers in the corporation.
“These support staff working for LIC were struggling to sustain their families with low wages earned as part-time sweepers,” said V Narasimhan, General Secretary of AINLIEF. The only condition the corporation applied to regularize part-time sweepers was that they must sweep at least 10,000 sq. ft.
AINLIEF appealed to the Chairman and Executive Director of LIC to take into consideration the plight of the employees and not to impose the unrealistic performance criteria as a condition to regularize their employment. AINLIEF has lobbied and pressurized through INTUC their claim.
On the recommendation of LIC Board of Directors made in June 2013, the Government of India has approved regularization of the part-time employees re-designating them as “sweepers cum attendants” in LIC India.
