Monthly Archives: December 2015

Com.S.Prasanna Kumar passed away

23 Wednesday Dec 2015

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Deeply shocked and grieved to know that Comrade S.Prasanna Kumar, CITU General Secretary, Karnataka and a close friend of the telecom workers and BSNLEU, passed away today (23-12-2015) morning at Bengaluru due to acute heart attack. He was only 48. He was closely connected with the Public Sector TUs and also BSNLEU. He attended and addressed many meetings of BSNLEU. He took special interest in the Casual contract labour movement of BSNL.

My Heart felt condolences to the bereaved family, comrades and friends in this great loss!

Bonus ceiling increased – Lok Sabha passes Payment of Bonus (Amendment Bill)

23 Wednesday Dec 2015

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Lok Sabha has passed Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill 2015 yesterday increasing the eligibility limit for payment of Bonus from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 20,000. The bonus calculation limit is also increased from the present Rs. 3,500 to Rs. 7,000. These will be implemented with retrospective effect from April 2014.

The Central Trade Unions have been demanding to increase the ceiling on both eligibility and calculation limits for the past few years.

No Penalty for Call Drops till 6th January 2016

23 Wednesday Dec 2015

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New Delhi, Dec 22 Telecom Regulatory Authority ofIndia (TRAI) today told the Delhi High Court that no coercivesteps would be taken against telecom companies till the nextdate of hearing on January 6 for not complying with the calldrop compensation norms.
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) P S Narasimha made thesubmission before a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini andJustice Jayant Nath which listed the pleas of cellularoperators challenging the call drop regulations for furtherhearing on January 6.
The ASG, however, made it clear that the regulations wouldcome into force from January 1 as was decided.
The operators have sought quashing of TRAI’s October 16ruling mandating service providers to pay subscribers Re 1 percall drop experienced on their network, subject to a cap ofthree a day.
Besides Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI),the Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India(AUSPI) and 21 telecom operators, including Vodafone, BhartiAirtel and Reliance have said that the decision has been takenknowing fully well that laws of physics make it impossible to provide a hundred per cent call drop-free network.(PTI)

EPFO interest may be fixed at 8.9% for 2015-16

23 Wednesday Dec 2015

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The continued demand of the cenntral trade unions for a justified hike in  EPF interest may be partially agreed. The EPFO is proposing to fix it at 8.9% for 2015-16,  from the 8.75% in 2014-2015. But concurrence from Finance Ministry has not received so far.

Railways to pay Rs.8,000 crore as Divident to Govt.

23 Wednesday Dec 2015

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The Railway Convention Committee of the government has directed the Railways to pay 4% divident to central government for 2015-2016 which will come to about Rs.8,000 crore.
The request of the Railways to waive the divident in view of the expenditure for implementation of the VII CPC coming to about Rs.35,000 crore, was not  accepted.

Massive Demonstrations demanding 78.2% IDA Pension fixtion

22 Tuesday Dec 2015

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As per the call of the Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations, lunch hour demonstrations were held in Circles and SSAs of BSNL. The employees wore black badges protesting against the delay in issuing orders for the 78.2% IDA pension fixation for the BSNL pensioners.

In BSNL Corporate Office, protest demonstration was held during lunch time. Slogans were raised demanding implementation of 78.2% fixation and protesting against the delay. Com. C.Singh, GS NFTE and President Forum, presided. Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, Patron, BSNLEU addressed and explained the demand in detail,the injustice meted out to the pensioners and demanded immediate settlement. All India leaders of unions, Coms. Swapan Chakroborty(BSNLEU), K.Sebastian (SNEA), Prahlad Rai (AIBSNLEA), R.S.Chauhan (BSNLEU) and others were present.

Central govt. gets Rs. 35,000 Crore through Disinvestment of PSU Shares in 2015.

21 Monday Dec 2015

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The Modi government knows how to sell the family silver and get money. In 2015, through the sale of PSU shares, the government has got Rs. 35,000 crores, which is much more than Rs. 22,000 crore received in 2013 and Rs. 18,000 crore received in 2014.

The fact is that the valuable PSUs, which strengthened the economy of the country, are being slaughtered through sales of their shares. Gradually they will be handed over to the private players as was done in the case of Maruti-Suzuki.

Strong protest should come from the trade unions and common people against this killing of Public Sector.

About 20,000 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra in 2001-2005

21 Monday Dec 2015

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The Hindu dated today has reported that about 2,500 farmers in Maharashtra have committed suicide during January to October 2014, due to failure of crops as also unable to repay the agricultural loans taken by them. If the total number of farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra from 2001 to 2014 is taken, the official number is 17.276 farmers of farmers committed suicide. This brings to a total of about 20,000 farmers who gave their life in Maharashtra alone.

The various governments at the Central and State had not taken the issue seriously. The farmers have been demanding for loan waival, but the government is not reacting favourably.

Top officers of Samsung in India are mostly Koreans

21 Monday Dec 2015

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Most of the top officers of telecom major, Samsung, are Koreans. The Korean company has got about 116 crorepati employees from Korea in their branch in India, which is almost 70% of the top posts.
This is the case with many other MNCs

Govt. decides not to tax payments to foreign employees of MNCs

21 Monday Dec 2015

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The Central government has taken decision to exempt the MNCs from paying service tax for the payments being made to its foreign employees. “There shall be no liability to pay service tax on the salary and allowances payable by the applicant to the employees in terms of the dual employment agreement and such salary will not be eligible to levy the service tax as per the provisions of the Finance Act “, the government stated.

This is a big concession to the foreign companies. Many cases are pending against the MNCs for non-payment of this service tax. One after another major concessions are being made to the MNCs and corporates, while the subsidies to the common people are taken away.