{"id":526775,"date":"2022-10-03T09:56:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T04:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=526775"},"modified":"2022-10-03T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T05:45:11","slug":"strike-by-electricity-dept-staff-in-puducherry-illegal-says-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/strike-by-electricity-dept-staff-in-puducherry-illegal-says-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike by electricity dept staff in Puducherry &#8216;illegal,&#8217; says official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Territory administration on Sunday declared as &#8216;illegal&#8217; the ongoing strike by electricity department staff to protest the decision to privatise power distribution.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, secretary, power department, T Arun said, &#8220;The strike is illegal under section 3 (q) of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 and employees resorting to strike are liable for action as per rules&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said the period of strike will also be considered &#8220;a break in service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary appealed to the staff to call off their agitation and return to their normal duties failing which &#8220;necessary action would be taken as per rules&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Territory administration on Sunday declared as &#8216;illegal&#8217; the ongoing strike by electricity department staff to protest the decision to privatise power distribution. In a statement, secretary, power department, T Arun said, &#8220;The strike is illegal under section 3 (q) of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 and employees resorting to strike are liable for action as per rules&#8221;. He said the period of strike will also be considered &#8220;a break in service&#8221;. The secretary appealed to the staff to call off their agitation and return to their normal duties failing which &#8220;necessary action would be taken as per rules&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526775","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}