Output-based payment adopted due to difficulty in monitoring work during lockdown: Registrar
Over a dozen content writers hired by Sree Narayana Guru Open University, Kollam, have accused the authorities of breach of contractual agreement.
The university had employed nearly 100 content writers for 15 disciplines at its two work stations in Kollam and Kozhikode recently. A contract of three months was signed between them and the university offering a consolidated salary of ₹42,000. The work started on March 15 and continued at the workstation in Kollam till April 28, though intermittently, due to the pandemic.
A notification asking the content writers to work from home was issued thereafter. On May 7, a new notification was issued based on a Syndicate decision, saying that the university had decided to make it an output-based engagement for which the remuneration was to be communicated. However, no such steps were taken or communicated to the content writers till early…