PTCL workers lock company gates; 18 hurt in clashes

ISLAMABAD - Over a dozen members of the Pakistan Telecom Company Limited (PTCL) employees’ union on Tuesday were injured after they locked the gates of the company launching the countrywide protest against discriminatory pay scales.

The protesting employees have demanded regularisation of jobs from daily-wage basis to the company’s pre-privatisation pay scales having entitlement to pensions as well. On the other hand, the management has offered an optional Unified Pay Scale that it claimed was the best the company could do to appease the workers in the post-privatisation scenario.