Mira Bhayandar: MBMC Terminates Outsourcing Contract Of Junior Engineers Over Labour Law Violations

Taking a strict enactment of hold successful disbursal of salaries and usurpation of labour laws, the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) terminated the declaration of a backstage bureau which was hired to proviso manpower to the civic body.

The termination of declaration bid was issued by the lawman municipal commissioner (head-quarters) connected Wednesday (29, January).  Facing an acute shortage of manpower, the MBMC arsenic a halt spread statement had appointed a Nashik-based manpower proviso bureau successful December,2021 for outsourcing 49 inferior engineers successful assorted departments.

The declaration was extended successful 2023 and 2024. However, aft receiving complaints regarding alleged usurpation of labour laws by delaying disbursal of salaries and non-compliance of the minimum wages act- which were immoderate of the clauses inked successful the statement executed connected 8, November-2021, the MBMC yet decided to enactment pugnacious and terminated the declaration with contiguous effect.

Notably, the civic medication has claimed that contempt the information that their accounts and audit section had been releasing the acrophobic contractor’s outgo connected time, the salaries were delayed and trimmed which is successful crisp opposition to the clauses. Moreover, the contractor allegedly failed to satisfactorily springiness replies to oral warnings and 11 authoritative amusement causes notices issued by the MBMC for delays successful wage disbursal betwixt 2023 and 2025. 

Notably, immoderate of the contractual inferior engineers hired by the bureau who were attached to the anti-encroachment section were nether the scanner for allegedly adopting a pick-and take argumentation by indulging successful corrupt practices to target definite establishments and sheltering oregon going brushed connected immoderate amerciable structures by taking cosmetic action, in speech of immense bribes.

With the exit of the contractual workforce, the MBMC present plans to recruit engineers on its payroll arsenic per the staffing signifier approved by the authorities authorities successful 2019.