A policeman standing guard outside a shuttered Tasmac outlet in Krishnagiri on Wednesday.
| Photo Credit: BASHKARAN N.
The district’s 111 Tasmac outlets remained shuttered for the second day over job permanence, minimum wages and a raft of demands here on Wednesday (May 27, 2026).Members of the joint action committee of Tasmac trade union, across the 14 districts of the State, has demanded job permanence, appointment of at least five staff members for each outlet to reduce the burden of excess work on the staff. According to the union, the work of loading and unloading the liquor cartons are upon the staff, and the costs of damage are obtained from them. The employees have demanded separate loadman for unloading the liquor cartons. Further, the bottle buy-back scheme must be suspended and separate workers must be appointed for their collection, the union demanded.Amid the current allegation of Tasmac workers collecting ₹10 in excess of the MRP, the trade unions stated that the money collected is returned to the customer upon their return of the bottle at the outlet. This must be made clear through a press release by the district administrations, protesters said.They added that workers are not paid the minimum wages and their labour is extracted beyond the mandated eight hour work schedule. While the staff are compelled to collect the empty bottles, the burden of renting room to store the bottles falls on the outlet owner. In the absence of space, the collected bottles are kept out in the open. Published - May 27, 2026 07:42 pm IST
