VII CPC may recommend for Permanent Pay Panel

26 Wednesday Aug 2015

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      New Delhi: The Seventh Pay Commission is likely to recommend the government to form a permanent pay panel to give recommendations to the government from time to time on issues pertaining to pay structure of central government employees.

            The permanent pay panel would recommend regular salary hikes in keeping with the rate of inflation.

            The formation of the permanent pay panel would help raise the salaries and allowances of central government officials and employees, an official of the pay panel said.

            He added the permanent pay panel would recommend salary and allowance hikes in keeping with the rising inflation rate, which will be implemented by the government. “Then it will not be necessary to form a new commission during the next several years for central government employees.”

            However, the Seventh Pay Commission got one month extension to submit its recommendations.

            Accordingly it is expected to submit its report by the end of September. The time allotted for the commission ends this month.

The government appointed the Seventh Pay Commission on 28 February 2014 under chairman, Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, with a time frame of 18 months to make its recommendations

            “There are some data points that are missing, which we hope to get by this month end. We are trying to submit the report by 20 September,” the official of the pay panel also said.

            The government’s salary bill will rise by 9.56% to Rs 1,00,619 crore with the implementation of the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission, according to a statement tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on August 12.

            The recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission, is likely to be implemented in April, next year. (Courtesy: Confederation)

 

GST Bill – Uncertainty continues

26 Wednesday Aug 2015

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The contention between the opposition parties and the BSP government continues on the passing of the GST Bill. While the government wants the GST Bill to be passed in a special Session of the Parliament, the opposition is firm that their concerns should be addressed.

 

VII CPC will submit report by end of September 2015 – Chairman

26 Wednesday Aug 2015

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Justice A.K.Mathur, Chairman of the VII Central Pay Commission has stated that the recommendations of the Commission will be submitted to the Government by the end of September 2015. This is one month’s delay from the earlier proposal to submit the report in August 2015.

The CG Employees are due for pay revision w.e.f. 2016. Most of the state governments are revising the pay of their employees based on the recommendations of the Central Pay Commission.

Call Drops problems to be attended urgently – PM

26 Wednesday Aug 2015

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Every body will agree with  Prime Minister Modi that the problem of call drops requires urgent attention. The only question is why the PM has not stated the same much earlier, since the problem was existing for a very long time. Any way, better late than never.

Every body, including customers, providers and government agrees that call drops is a very big issue. Calls are cut in between resulting a lot of irritation, unhappiness in relations, increased charges and so on. The reasons may be different; Lack of spectrum, lack of towers, providing more connections than capable by the system and so on.

There is really an urgent need to attend to the same on a fat track. A co-ordinated effort on the part of telecom companies and government is very much needed.

Wage Revision of BSNL Employees

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

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If the period for wage revision is taken as 10 years, as in the case of central Government Employees, the BSNL employees are due for wage revision in January 2017. If the demand of BSNLEU is accepted for 5 years, the wage revision is due from January 2012. For the executives in BSNL, pay revision depends upon the Pay Revision Committee to be appointed by the government. For the non-executives, it is through direct negotiations between the Management and the Recognised Unions.

Whatever be the position, it is high time that the wage negotiation starts. Last time it took about more than three years of hard negotiation and struggles including strikes to reach an agreement. (Of course, it was a very good wage revision). Even if the negotiation takes about one year, it is time to start the same. There need not be any delay in the matter.

Postal Payment Bank – Pact with BSNL

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

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It is understood that Department of Posts is going to have agreement  with government telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to use its platform to roll out payment bank services, which is proposed  to start by March 2016. This will be beneficial for both to Department of Posts and BSNL, which were both part of one single Department, P and T, till 1985.

 

There should be no discrimination between the upgradation of cities for grant of HRA between Government and PSU

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

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The government has recently issued orders upgrading the cities as per the 2011 census report as also on other grounds including urban agglomeration and granted HRA accordingly. BSNL and other central PSU employees are deprived of the same, since the criterion for the PSUs based on population only and not all the criterias as eligible for CG Employees. This is a gross discrimination. For example in the recent orders, Ahmedabad and Pune are upgraded as “X” class Cities (former “A” class ), while this status is denied for the BSNL employees for grant of HRA. In the same way there are many cities upgraded to “Y” class( former “B” class)  for CG employees, while not for the BSNL employees.

This discrimination should end. The government should declare all these upgraded cities are applicable for increased HRA for BSNL employees also as in the case of CG Employees.  The wages of the contract workers also should be increased on the same basis in these upgraded cities.

 

Where is the govt. announcement increasing minimum wage?

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

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The Government had stated that it will be difficult to announce Rs.15,000 as Minimum Wage as demanded by the Central trade Unions, but some increase will be there. But despite many weeks, no orders have been issued. Workers will not be happy with any amount less than Rs. 15,000 as demanded by the Central TUs.

Is the government waiting for the strike to take place? In that case, the government will certainly see the anger of the workers. There is nothing surprising in the  government in-action, since it has a tradition of promising and not delivering.

Rent for staff – quarters allotted for retired BSNL employees

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

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Staff quarters were not allotted to retired employees, since the quarters  were not sufficient even to the working employees. However, during the last many years due to non-recruitment as also the comparison of HRA and the outside rent, many quarters are vacant. After much pressure from BSNLEU and AIBDPA, orders were issued for allotting quarters to retired employees also, where there are vacant quarters. But as per the orders they had to pay market rent, which is very high. The AIBDPA demand is that the retired persons also should be given quarters on the same criteria as that of regular employees and not market rent.

Com. VAN Namboodiri, Advisor, AIBDPA met Smt. Sujata Ray, Direct (HR), BSNL on 24th August 2015 and discussed the matter. The need for removing the market rent condition was pointed out by Com. Namboodiri. Director(HR) assured that the matter will be favourably considered by BSNL management.

2 September 2015 General Strike – BSNL Executives Employees also should be part of this great working Class Struggle

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

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While most of the unions/associations in BSNL have given notice for strike on 2nd September 2015 called by the 11 Central Trade unions on the major demands of the working class and the demands of the BSNL employees, the major executive associations in BSNL is vacillating. So far they have not given the strike notice and it seems that they may not go on strike also.

Many associations of officers/executives in government sector  and public sector have decided for strike. In the private sector also, this is the situation. In certain sectors, the union/association includes both executives and non-executives and the decision for strike is there.

The anti-worker, anti-people policies of the central government are adversely affecting all the workers, including executives/officers. Even at this late stage a rethinking can be undertaken and a correct decision to go on strike taken, which will benefit all.