Employees of pharma firms to hold rally on January 2 - Indian Express
Around 20,000 sales promotion employees of state-based pharmaceutical companies will hold a rally from Rani Baug in Byculla to Azad Maidan on January 2 demanding enforcement of the Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976.
“This is a fight for our legal identity. Appointment letters for employees should be on the basis of submission of Form-A, which makes labour laws applicable. By refusing to submit Form-A, pharmaceutical companies are treating their employees as bonded labourers,” alleged K B Kadam, general secretary of Federation of Medical and Sales Representatives’ Association of India (FMRAI).
Kadam added that such practices by pharmaceutical companies affect medicine distribution. “ When employees are treated as bonded labourers, there is a high possibility of them being involved in bribery for trade and prescription of medicines,” he said.
