<p class="title">Outsourced labourers of BSNL alleged that they had not been paid wages for the past 10 months.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Speaking to reporters, Horaguthige Karmika Sangha General Secretary K A Basavaraju said, "Mysuru-based contractor had hired us to work as outsourced labourers for the last 10 to 12 years. After July 2019, we have not received the salary.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">When asked, the contractor used to threaten to remove us from the work, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“We have worked tirelessly during natural calamity that hit the district. Even during lockdown, we were not supplied mask and sanitisers. We are in distress,” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ganesh, an outsourced labourer, said there were more than 175 outsourced labourers in the district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are also denied of EPF and ESI benefits. We were made to work for wages as low as Rs 8,734 per month," he added.</p>
<p class="title">Outsourced labourers of BSNL alleged that they had not been paid wages for the past 10 months.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Speaking to reporters, Horaguthige Karmika Sangha General Secretary K A Basavaraju said, "Mysuru-based contractor had hired us to work as outsourced labourers for the last 10 to 12 years. After July 2019, we have not received the salary.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">When asked, the contractor used to threaten to remove us from the work, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“We have worked tirelessly during natural calamity that hit the district. Even during lockdown, we were not supplied mask and sanitisers. We are in distress,” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ganesh, an outsourced labourer, said there were more than 175 outsourced labourers in the district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are also denied of EPF and ESI benefits. We were made to work for wages as low as Rs 8,734 per month," he added.</p>