Shimla, May 14 -- The Himachal Pradesh Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) Employees Union on Wednesday held a meeting and protest in Shimla, demanding immediate release of pending salaries and wages and warned to boycott work if salaries are not paid on time every month.

Addressing employees during a protest, HRTC Employees Union state president Maan Singh Thakur alleged that salaries had not been disbursed in most HRTC units despite repeated assurances from the corporation management.

Thakur said that barring a few depots, employees in nearly 28 depots across the state had not received their salaries till Wednesday. He said drivers, conductors and mechanics working in remote areas were facing severe financial hardship due to the delay....