Pakistan: Sacked Lahore education workers protest

Pakistan: Sacked Lahore education workers protest

Some 400 sacked teachers and non-teaching workers from the federal government’s Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) at the Aysha Degree College began an indefinite sit-down protest outside the Punjab Assembly in Lahore on April 10 to demand reinstatement and back pay.

The workers said that their protest would continue until the federal government regularised employment and provided official leave and the same medical and pension benefits received by other ETPB employees. Demonstrators told the media that they were sacked after not being paid salaries for the past two months.