In a four-page letter to sent to Ministry of Labor and Transport Management (MoLTM), Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG), which operates MCOMS, has sought the government´s intervention to end the Nepali doctors´ strike that began early this week. [break]
Nepali doctors are on an indefinite strike since last Sunday demanding equal pay for equal work.
They have accused the MCOMS of paying three times higher salaries to non-Nepali, mostly Indian, doctors. However, the MCOMS has refuted Nepali doctors´ allegation.
The salaries for non-Nepali doctors is slightly, not three times higher as claimed by Nepali doctors, because of an additional expertise-allowance, states the letter.
However, Nepali doctors claim that the MCOMS brings Indian experts by not recognizing easily-available Nepali experts.
The MEMG has asked the MoLTM to invoke Labor Act-1992 to force the agitating Nepali doctors into calling off their strike. The act bans any strike in any sector that provides essential services.
The act also allows the government to order agitating unions to end their strike if it poses a threat to national security or economy.
A total of 682 Nepalis, including 52 teaching staff, are working at the MCOMS while the MEMG has hired 93 Indian nationals. Nepali doctors also say Indian nationals are working at the MCOMS without obtaining work permits.
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