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CMC radiologists seek CA intervention for restoration of payments
View(s):The Court of Appeal this week served notice on the Respondents in the case filed by the Colombo Municipal Council’s (CMC) Microbiology and City Analyst Laboratory employees, over the stopping of the special payment made in lieu of private tests conducted by them.
The 24 Petitioners, who are all attached to the CMC, have cited 13 Respondents, including Colombo Mayor A.J.M. Muzzamil and Municipal Commissioner Bhadrani Jayawardhana.
Petitioners state that, in addition to their official duties, they conduct “Private investigations” relating to checking the quality and standard of food and water served at restaurants, eating houses etc. and also test samples submitted by individual and private firms and handlers of food.
The private testing services, they say, have been performed by them since 1982, and were paid a fee/remuneration for this additional service, pursuant to a recommendation by the CMC Finance Committee, in March 1982.
Petitioners said that, since 2007 and until February 2013, they were paid 35 per cent of the income generated from private sample testing, which payment has been withheld since March last year.
The Petitioners have sought Court intervention to have their payments restored.