Fill up vacant posts, hike salary: EPF Union

Tiruchirapalli, Jan 22: The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) Staff Union has urged the Union government to fill up the existing vacant posts and increase the pay scales on a par with Organised Accounts Department with retrospective effect from 1996.

EPF Staff Federation vice-president C Rajan, informing this to newspersons here yesterday, said the EPF Staff Union, affiliated to All-India EPF Staff Federation, in its charter of demands to Union Labour Ministry has sought basic salary hike for employees in various grades.

He said the union would resort to a strike during lunch hour as a token of protest if their demands were not met by January 31.

UNI