The trade union launched the strike charging the management of violating the country´s labor law after the company laid off nine workers. The union demanded that the company immediately reinstate them. The strike has affected sales and post-sale services as the company shut down all its showrooms and service centers for an indefinite period. [break]
Saurav Jyoti, the managing director of Jyoti Group, that owns Syakar, said that the trade union´s demand were not legitimate as the workers were trainees taken in just six months ago and not recruited staffs. “We had clearly informed them at the time of hiring that only a few of them would be recruited based on their performances,” he told Republica. Jyoti also said that the company was processing their documents.
Officials of the trade union, however, said that they decided to shut the company because the company was taking unnecessarily long time to take them back. Bhakta Bahadur Lama, the district chairman of ANAMTU, also claimed that those who were laid off were not trainees hired six months ago but staff working in the company since last four years.
“One of the fired staff was working with Syakar for last four years. Besides, we also found out that the company was employing some staff on a contract of over 13 years. This goes against labor law,” Lama said, and demanded that the management appoint them on permanent basis.
The trade union has demanded that those working for more than 240 days must be made permanent.
“If the company cannot retain them, it must provide them provident fund and other facilities for the period they served the institution,” Lama said. Jyoti stated that the management was negotiating with the trade union officials to end the problem. Lama, on the other hand, denied having received a call from the company for dialogue so far.
Syakar has about 10 showrooms and equal number of service centers in the Kathmandu valley. As it sells about 100 bikes a day, the strike has directly inflicted a daily loss of about Rs 20 million to the company. Apart from that, the company was also making substantial earnings from its service centers and spare parts business.
“The loss is huge. But more than anything else, we are highly concerned about inconveniences faced by our customers,” said Jyoti.
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