Kathmandu, June 9 -- Civil servants across the country have launched a new phase of indefinite protest demanding an employee-friendly federal civil service act.

They resumed their protest, accusing the State Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of not accommodating their demands while making amendments to the Federal Civil Service Act. The House committee finalised the draft bill on its part last month. But the committee chair is yet to table the bill in the plenary.

Giving continuity to their protest on Sunday, agitating civil servants wore black armbands while working at their respective offices.

The protest programme was called by the Movement Directive Committee of the Joint National Trade Union Network, a coalition of...