COVID warriors: Laboratory technicians hold protest in Guwahati Laboratory technicians stage protest demanding justice as they have been 'fired' despite the govt's promise that their jobs will be permanent after 3 months | 15 Dec 2020 2:10 PM GMT Guwahati: Laboratory technicians on Tuesday held a protest in Sasal area of Guwahati in Assam demanding justice from the government. The health workers were reportedly fired from their jobs in October this year despite the government promising that their jobs will be made permanent after three months. Since the novel coronavirus outbreak in the world, the health workers were at the forefront of the war and all the laboratory technicians were comrades-in-arms. However, as the number of cases has decreased in the state, they were asked to leave in October, the protesters lamented.