The National Trade Union Centre (NTUC) will be lodging a complaint with the Human Rights Commission Sri Lanka (HRCSL) tomorrow (18) against forced pay cuts of public servants. NTUC said the Government had deducted salaries from state employees of several key institutions saying it is for the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Fund. This has been carried out amidst trade union protests, the NTUC added. NTUC last week alleged that the letter sent by Secretary to the President Dr. P.B. Jayasundera was not a request but an order as a day’s salary had been cut from state employees without their consent. NTUC General Secretary Mahinda Jayasinghe stressed that the employees of Samurdhi, Education, Postal, and Defence Staff were being forced to give their consent for said salary deduction. Several letters ordering employees to offer a day’s salary had been sent by the heads of several institutions, Jayasinghe alleged. According to him, the letters have been sent by an accountant of the Samurdhi Department (Samurdhi Authority) to their employees. Furthermore, a day’s salary had already been deducted from the employees of the Department of Posts.