Workers' unions oppose the move of Coal India to move its subsidiary marketing offices from Kolkata to their respective headquarters, as it will disrupt the jobs of some 130 employees and some 29 contract workers.
The decision was taken to transfer the subsidiary offices along with the respective marketing and sales offices of the subsidiaries, Eastern Coalfields, Bharat Coking Coal, Central Coalfields, South Eastern Coalfields and Mahanadi Coalfields from Kolkata to their respective subsidiary headquarters.
Most of the marketing and sales offices are currently located in a building in Kolkata that used to house the company's headquarters. Some of the offices are in other locations in the city.
S Q Zama, Secretary-General of the Indian National Mining Federation affiliated with INTUC, in a letter to the President of Coal India, expressed the decision of the Unions to oppose the move.
In the letter to the Coal India chairman Zama said: “…This will affect professional and domestic life of the male and female employees who are in the age of 50-plus and on the verge of retirement. There are several widow employees working in place of their late husbands’.”
“It may have negative impacts on the majority of employees working under Coal India…we, thus disapprove this decision taken by management,” he said in the letter.
These offices were used for major banking operations, day-to-day banking transactions and reconciliations with banks. Maintenance of a large number of bank guarantees on confirmation received by banks located in Kolkata, opening of the use of letter of credit and e-purchase related jobs.
They also participated in the release of coal programs, the sale and marketing of jobs, the submission of coal bills, the payment of fees, refunds and adjustments, the retention of leghold borrowers and reconciliation.
