Goa's lifeguards threaten to ruin your holiday if demands not met

April 20, 2016 16:31

With the onset of summer tourist season in Goa, lifeguards have threatened to go on strike if the state government fails to make "positive intervention" on their demands, including regularisation.

Lifeguards, employed with government-contracted agency -- Drishti Lifesaving Services -- had earlier gone on strike from December 21, 2015, to January 13, demanding regularisation of their services and hike in the pay packages.

They withdrew the protests after the government assured to look into their demands.

All India Trade Union Congress, the union representing lifeguards, has already moved the Goa bench of the Bombay high court. The court, on April 7, granted two weeks time to the government to workout settlement between the lifeguards and their employer, and has posted the next hearing on April 25 wherein the state government will file its reply.

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