Milk Vita
MD to advise action about illegal staff
The fate of 76 Milk Vita employees appointed illegally by the management committee and trade union leaders will be decided on recommendations from the state-run dairy company's managing director.
State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanak asked for the recommendations on Monday when he met the Milk Vita authorities and the Collective Bargaining Agent (CBA) of Bangladesh Milk Producers' Cooperative Union, which owns the Milk Vita dairy brand.
The Milk Vita managing director, Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, said it would take him a week to review the issue and make recommendations. “I will strive for a solution as per law and rules in consideration of proper functioning of the company preventing anomalies and corruption.â€
The state minister said the government would publish a white paper on Milk Vita corruption, according to a meeting source. The prime minister expressed her great concern after seeing a Daily Star report on the corruption, Nanak was quoted as saying at the meeting.
Meanwhile, the January salaries of all staff and officers of Milk Vita earlier stopped by the CBA to save the job of 76 employees have been ready for disbursement following the minister's meeting.
Earlier, the trade unions of the dairy forced the accounts section not to prepare salary bills to create pressure so that the 76 illegal employees got paid too.
The 12-member Milk Vita management committee and the CBA appointed those employees without authority on January 9 apparently through an underhand deal.
The CBA thugs affiliated with ruling party assaulted a Milk Vita manager on January 19 for conveying a government order for canceling the illegal appointments.
According to official documents, Milk Vita Management Committee Chairman Hasib Khan Tarun unilaterally issued appointment letters to the 76 employees without legal authority.
Tarun attended Monday's meeting alongside CBA President Jahanagir Alam Maznu, among others.
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