| The following agreement has
been reached between the A.B.I.T.A., A.T.P.A., T.A.I. and
Jorhat-1. and the
A.C.M.S. and the A.C.K.S.:- (i) That workers of the
estates under the membership of association represented above will be
granted an extra paid holiday, increasing the total number of paid holidays
to 7 in a year.
(ii) The above holiday will be granted on
the occasion of Bohag Bihu Which falls on the last day of the Assamese year
generally coinciding with the 13th or 14th April.
(iii) That the holiday for Mahatma
Gandhi's birth day on the 2ed October should be substituted by the 30th
January the day of Gandhijee' assassination which is also observed as the martyr's Day by the
Nation and no paid or unpaid holiday or whatsoever will be allowed on
2nd October.
(iv) That facilities for a prayer meeting
early in the morning of the 2nd October will be granted to the workers
before they go to work.
(v) That if either Bohag Bihu or the 30th
January falls on a Weekly Rest day the next working day will be granted as a
holiday.
(vi) As during the year 1968 no paid
holiday was granted on 30th January, 1968, because of this agreement having
been made after that date, the substitute holiday or wages in lieu of 2nd
October 1968 will be the subject of further discussion.
The Union and management would
explain to the workers this holiday with pay will be a special one for the
year 1968 only and would not be granted in any other year.
Sd/- General Secretary, Sd/- P. Goswami,
A.C.K. Sangha. General Secretary, A.C.M. Sangha.
Sd/- Chairman, A.B.I.T.A.
Sd/- Illegible, A.T.P.A., Jorhat. Sd/- Vice Chairman, A.B.I.T.A.
Sd/- Secretary, T.A.I., Sd/- Secretary, B.C.P.,
Assam Branch. Assam Branch.
Dated 19th Sep, 1968 |