Officer associations & worker unions of PSMC demand immediate termination of irregular appointments of daily wage employees

KARACHI, Jan 15 (SABAH): The officer associations and worker unions of Pakistan Steel Mill Corporation (PSMC) demanded that, after publishing of Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) report on Accounts of Public Sector Enterprises for Audit year 2021-22, CEO-PSM, Secretary MOIP and Board of Directors should immediately terminate the irregular appointments of daily wage employees (89 days appointment repeated after one day gap) as observed in Audit para 8.7.4.9 (like Muhammad Ayub and others).

As mentioned the DAC has directed the management to ensure no further appointment be made on the daily wages basis and no extension shall be given to existing contractual employees. So, these DAC directives should be implemented in letter and spirit by the present CEO to avoid any legal action.

The salaries paid to all these 36 employees as named in Annexure -46 of AGP report for these irregular appointments total amounting to Rs 22.13 million should also be recovered through FIA and the those responsible for these irregular appointments, i.e. Ex-Incharge (A&P) Riaz Hussain Mangi (present daily wager after retirement), Ex-PEO(A&P) Tariq Khan, Ex-CEO, Company Secretary Muhammad Shafiq Anjum (present contract employee after retirement), ACFO Muhammad Arif Shaikh and Chairman Board Aamir Mumtaz should be held accountable by the accountability bodies of the country, Public Accounts committee and Senate and National Assembly Standing Committees on MOIP for these irregularities and causing financial losses to PSMC.