SHILLONG: Mawlai MLA PT Sawkmie has lamented that many people working in private firms and business houses have not been paid their salary since last three months.
In a letter to Deputy Chief Minister in-charge of Labour, Prestone Tynsong, Sawkmie said that employees of the private firms have not been paid their salary for the months of March, April and May.
Seeking the deputy chief minister’s intervention, he also said some journalists have also been subjected to a hardships as their salaries have been deducted by 20-30 per cent. “This policy applied by them is against the decision of the Government of India which says that all the business houses / private companies should not cut the salaries of the staff and not to the terminate the employees at this time of pandemic,” the MLA said in the letter.
