Employees of Pakistan Horticulture Development and Export Company (PHDEC) have urged the Federal Minister for Commerce Khurram Dastgir to decide the fate of the institution at the earliest as they are neither being relieved from their duties not being paid any salary for the last seven months.
PHDEC employees staged a protest demonstration in front of the Lahore Press Club (LPC) on Tuesday and disclosed to media that the Company had not been given any fund by the Ministry of Commerce for the last two years as a result of which it was facing a severe liquidity crunch. They claimed that they were not being paid their salaries since July last while the Company had not been given any fund to meet its day to day expenditures.
They claimed that they were unable to pay rent of their houses or bills of electricity and other utilities because of non-payment of their salaries, while names of their children had also been struck off from the schools.
They urged the Federal Minister for Commerce to pay attention to that issue on the basis of human grounds. They alleged that they were facing a unique type of punishment by the government as a result of which they were neither working nor being paid their salaries. They asked the Minister to decide the fate of this institution at the earliest to save its employees from starvation and suicides.