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Today, workers across the country will observe a public holiday to mark this year’s International Workers’ Day, but across the country, only a negligible few, in spite of the avalanche of goodwill messages and promises made on Labour Day, are looking forward to a promising future. This is because the journey to retirement for an average civil servant is like a journey to squalor. Year after year, a well-worn prayer is chanted by every worker during Labour Day rallies: “May we reap the fruit of our labour” but things only get worse. In active service, workers endure delayed salaries and non-implementation of minimum wage; after bowing out of service, the next level of agony begins, delayed pensions.

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