{"id":4998,"date":"2025-04-25T00:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T00:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2025-04-25T00:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T00:05:13","slug":"280-railways-employees-retrenched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4998","title":{"rendered":"280 railways employees retrenched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Pakistan Railways has shut down the Pakistan Railways Advisory and Consultancy Service (PRACS), retrenching 280 employees amid a severe financial crunch.<\/p>\n<p>The move sparked strong backlash from the affected staff, who staged a protest against the decision. They raised slogans against the railway administration, blocked the road, and announced plans to challenge the closure in court.<\/p>\n<p>Railway officials sealed the PRACS offices and transferred valuable items such as computers, furniture and other equipment into two large rooms. Earlier, 80 employees were terminated on April 6.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Railways has shut down the Pakistan Railways Advisory and Consultancy Service (PRACS), retrenching 280 employees amid a severe financial crunch. The move sparked strong backlash from the affected staff, who staged a protest against the decision. They raised slogans against the railway administration, blocked the road, and announced plans to challenge the closure in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}