Mysuru, April 2 -- Accusing the Karnataka Silk Industries Corporation (KSIC) of laying off contract employees under the pretext of contract renewal, the aggrieved KSIC contract workers submitted a memorandum to Krishnaraja MLA T.S. Srivatsa yesterday.

Alleging that the contract employees were intentionally given a break in order to cut off their service continuity, the workers were protesting in front of the KSIC premises on Manandavadi Road, when MLA Srivatsa happened to pass by. Srivatsa, who stopped at the spot, heard the grievances of workers and received a memorandum from them. The MLA later met KSIC officials and received inputs from them on the issue.

Later, addressing the protesting workers, Srivatsa said that the workers can at...