One of the sacked employees told TSE that the PCB has tell them in the letter that they can re-apply for a contract-based job.
Under the government rules, an organisation can only employ retired persons on contractual basis. Interestingly, the move has given the PCB chief, Ejaz Butt, the real chance of taking along his old friend Yawar Saeed, who is over 70 years of age and stepped down after a turbulent tour to England earlier this year, in the PCB.
Sources questioned the goodwill of the PCB chief behind the move and said that the sacked employees including Wasim Bari (62), Shafiq Ahmed (61) and Khizar Hayat (71) had been working for a long period of time and why only they have been sacked.
The answer is not that difficult.
Sources told The Sports Encounter on Monday that former manager of Pakistan cricket team, Yawar Saeed, is likely to fill in the boots of Wasim Bari, who was also axed as Chief Operating Officer.
The PCB had axed the overage group under a service rule act that does not allow the board to give regular employment to persons over the age of 60 years.
The Board terminated the services of at least 15 of its employees on Saturday when these workers received letters apprising them of their termination.
The decision has come as a surprise for many as Wasim Bari and others have been working with the cricket board for a long time and this sudden termination has created problems for the others.
Sources further told TSE that those PCB employees who fetch salaries under Rs.100,000/- have also been offered fresh contracts while the axed ones were told in the letter that they can re-apply for the posts
