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 barring a few depots, employees in nearly 28 depots across the state had not received their salaries till Wednesday. "We had asked the management to release salaries by Tuesday evening. Employees are finding it difficult even to manage daily expenses and food while on duty," he said. Thakur said the union had issued a fresh notice demanding that salaries be paid by the first or second day of every month. "If salaries are not credited on time by the first of every month, HRTC employees will stop work after the 2nd of every month until payments are made," he said. htc...