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Hospital Employees’ Union is a registered trade union of health workers. The Union was registered in 1961 under the Trade Unions Act, 1926. The Union consists of health workers working in hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, nursing homes, maternity and child welfare centres etc. It is a recognized union by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi since 1964. HEU has been at forefront in fighting for health workers’ rights. The incessant fight of the Union has ensured many rights to the workers such as enhancement of annually offs from four to eight, payment of uniform allowance, payment of risk allowance to the health workers working in TB and Infectious Diseases hospitals, patient care allowance for health workers, reinstatement of many of our members who were illegally terminated, and regularization of hundreds of temporary/daily wage/ contract workers.

What we do ?

Hospital Employees Union, a registered trade union, is the voice of health workers of Delhi.
We take steps to ensure better working conditions and job security to Health Workers who are working on daily wages/temporary/contract or through contractors.
We secure social and economic justice for the health workers.
We strive to make workplaces/hospitals more democratic where the workers get due proceeds for their skills and labour.
We work for employment rights of Health Workers. Our work helps the patients as well as the society at large.

We raise industrial dispute for our members who have been wronged by their employers.
Raise their demands of better pay, better service conditions, job security/permanency/regularization, bonus, gratuity, provident fund and all other service benefits
Raise their demands of better pay, better service conditions, job security/permanency/regularization, bonus, gratuity, provident fund and all other service benefits
Organize health workers
We fight Illegal retrenchment, wrongful termination, unfair labour practices and denial of profit sharing by employers in labour courts, industrial tribunals and CGITs, High Court and Supreme Court.

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We have our units at

Ayurvedic & Unani Tibbia College & Hospital

Dr. Baba Sahib Ambedkar Medical College and Hospital

A hospital is an “industry” and covered under labour laws of India.

Hospital workers have a right to form a trade union or join a trade union of their choice.

Private and Government both kind of Hospitals must follow labour laws.

You can join our trade union even if you are working on contract basis.

A hospital workers can raise an industrial dispute in Labour Court/Industrial Tribunal through his union against illegal termination/firing, denial of wages, illegal continuation for long period as temporary employee.