Coal India\u2019s unions are seeking a festival bonus of at least \u20b960,500, which was paid to each of the 270,000 workers last year, for Durga Puja shopping that would include high-end mobile phones, appliances and computers, a workers\u2019 representative said. They plan to negotiate with the management on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
SQ Zama, secretary-general of the Indian National Mine Workers\u2019 Federation said workers deserve a bigger bonus of \u20b980,000-100,000 because the company has performed well.<\/p>\n
This would cost Coal India \u20b92,100-2,600 crore. Its 17,000 executives are not eligible for bonus.<\/p>\n
DD Ramanandan, president at All India Coal Workers Federation, said union leaders generally agree to figure between last year\u2019s pay out and the amount they demand.<\/p>\n
He said workers had high aspirations. \u201cWith time, aspirations of workers have also changed. They now aspire for high-end mobile phones or a computer since living standards of these people and their family members have also improved with time. The spend is spread over a month starting with Durga Puja to Diwali,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to a former Coal India chairman, the state-run miner had paid around \u20b930,000 to each employee during 2010 and it used to be mostly spent on garments and a host of gadgets that these workers aspired for, including scooters or television sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Coal India\u2019s unions are seeking a festival bonus of at least \u20b960,500, which was paid to each of the 270,000 workers last year, for Durga Puja shopping that would include high-end mobile phones, appliances and computers, a workers\u2019 representative said. They plan to negotiate with the management on Tuesday. SQ Zama, secretary-general of the Indian National Mine Workers\u2019 Federation said workers deserve a bigger bonus of \u20b980,000-100,000 because the company has performed well. This would cost Coal India \u20b92,100-2,600 crore. Its 17,000 executives are not eligible for bonus. DD Ramanandan, president at All India Coal Workers Federation, said union leaders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}