GHADC trouble-free but staff missing

TURA, May 26: A day after trouble broke out between agitating staff and the administration over decision to open the offices of GHADC to begin functioning, normalcy appears to have returned on Wednesday with no untoward incidents taking place.
Chief Executive Member (CEM) Benedic R Marak, along with his executive members and officers, began normal work inside the complex preparing salary bills for employees which they are planning to release for the employees through their accounts.
The agitating employees, however, have reiterated that they will not accept the five months’ salary being prepared for them under the old scale of pay and are demanding nothing short of one full year of dues in the revised scale.
The employees abstained from attending duty, once again, to show their protest.
On Tuesday, pandemonium had broken out after some of the employees broke ranks with the agitating members and joined duty leading to a ruckus that included name calling, threats and even stones being pelted at the CEM’s vehicle as it made its way out after dark from the office compound.
The CEM has been steadfast in his decision maintaining that officers and staff need to return to work to make the district council up and running after incurring losses for well over four months due to the strike.