Karnal, May 16 -- Nearly after 14-days of strike, the sanitation workers in Haryana on Friday joined back to their duties following an assurance from the state government on their demand of job regularisation.

Raj Kumar, president of the Municipal Employees' Union, Karnal, said that a delegation met the state government on Wednesday, after which a state body meeting was held in Rohtak, where they decided to end the strike. "The state government assured regularisation for us as well as for staff employed with the fire department, who were also on strike," he said.

The sanitation workers were on a complete work suspension since May 1. Though, door-to-door garbage collection was being carried out by a private contractor, their workers also...