India: Tea garden suspends work, leaving 550 jobless and without owed wages
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 23 Dic 2022
Ubicación: India
Empresas
Sreebas Tea Estate - SupplierAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 550
Trabajadores: ( Número desconocido - Ubicación desconocida , Té , Gender not reported )Temas
Dismissal , Wage Theft , Impacts on Livelihoods , Libertad de asociaciónRespuesta
Response sought: No
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
"Cooch Behar: Tea garden suspends work, 550 jobless"
The management of a tea garden in Cooch Behar district announced work suspension from Thursday, leaving around 550 workers jobless.
As workers of Sreebas tea estate in Changrabandha under Mekhliganj subdivision reached the garden on Thursday morning, they saw the suspension notice.
“The management has not cleared 21 days of workers’ wages and one month and 21 days of wages of the sub-staff. This (suspension of work) is undesirable. If they (the garden management) had an issue, they should have sat for talks,” said Alamgir Hossain, a leader of Trinamul workers’ front INTTUC.
A worker said the garden should reopen at once or else the tea bushes would dry up. Workers also resorted to protests at the garden and contacted the administration for an intervention.
District assistant labour commissioner Sumanta Roy called a tripartite meeting but no one from the garden’s management came.