SHRI S. K. SINHA WILL
TAKE OVER AS
DIRECTOR GENERAL,
DEPARTMENT OF POST
[ Federated with the "National Federation of Postal Employees" ], 37 Ganesh Chandra Avenue, Kolkata - 700 013.
Friday, 29 April 2016
FOR
INDEFINITE STRIKE
Seventh Central Pay
Commission has submitted its recommendations to Government on 19-11-2015.
As most of the recommendations are retrograde and far below the expectations of
the employees, the JCM National Council Staff side under the united banner of
National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) strongly protested and demanded
modification of the retrograde recommendations. It further decided to
organise indefinite strike and letter conveying the decision was sent to the
Cabinet Secretary.
Main demands raised by NJCA are: (1) minimum wage of Rs.26,000/- as against
18000 recommended by CPC, (2) upward revision of the fitment formula and
application of the same in all pay scales in the pay matrix, (3) retention of
percentage of HRA as 30%, 20% and 10% as against 24%, 16% and 8% recommended by
CPC. (4) recommendation of the CPC to abolish important allowances should
be rejected, (5) reject recommendations to discontinue all non-interest
bearing advances, (6) reject the recommendation to reduce the salary to 80% for
the second year of child care leave, (7) reject recommendations to impose more
stringent conditions on MACP scheme such as “very good” benchmark, qualifying
examination, re-introduction of efficiency bar etc. (8) modification in the
parity-in-pension and acceptance of other minimum demands of pensioners and (9)
Grant of Civil Servants Status to Gramin Dak Sevaks and extending all the
benefits of departmental employees to Gramin Dak Sevaks on pro-rata
basis. There are other demands also which are equally important.
Govt. constituted an Implementation Cell in the Finance Ministry to study the
recommendations and submit its proposal to the Empowered Committee of
Secretaries under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary. Empowered
Committee will submit final concrete proposals to Cabinet for approval.
On receipt of the letter of NJCA addresed to Cabinet Secretary regarding
indefinite strike, the Implementation Cell called the JCM staff side leaders to
present its view points before the cell. Accordingly the NJCA leaders met the
Convenor of Implementation Cell and explained the justification of each demands
in the charter of demands.
NJCA decided to give strike notice on 11th March 2016 to commence the
indefinite strike from 11th April 2016. At this stage the Cabinet
Secretary invited the JCM National Council staff side leaders for discussion
with Empowered Committee of Secretaries on 1st March 2016. The NJCA
leaders attended the discussion and once again explained the justification of
all demands before the Empowered Committee. Cabinet Secretary gave a
patient hearing but made no commitment on any of the demands. He finally
appealed the staff side to give some more time for the Government for
inter-departmental consultations and to take a final view and decision on ech
demand raised by the staff side in the charter of demands.
NJCA met and reviewed the whole situation and came to the conclusion that as
the Government has appealed for some more time to take a decision, it will be
appropriate on the part of the staff side to give time to the Government, so
that later on Government cannot blame that NJCA went on sudden strike inspite
of the appeal from the Government to give some more time. Secondly,
Railways and Defence departments come under the purview of Industrial Dispute
Act and as per the ID Act, if strike notice is served on 11th March 2016,
strike should commence within six weeks from the date of serving notice, by
which time the election in four states will not be over. Thirdly, as the
Assembly elections in four states have been notified and election code of
conduct has come into force, the employees of four states will find it
difficult to join the strike as many of them will be drafted for election
duty. Taking into consideration all the above aspects, the NJCA decided
to defer the indefinite strike from April 11th to July 11th and to serve the
strike notice on June 9th instead of March 11th.
Now the ball is in the Govt.’s court. Before June 9th, ie. date of
serving strike notice, the Government will be getting seven month time from the
date of submission of the 7th CPC report, to take a final decision on all the
demands and also to come to a negotiated settlement with the staff side.
Any further delay is unwarranted and unjustified and cannot be tolerated.
If the Government take an adamant stand and reject the justified demands of the
staff side, then we will be forced to serve notice for indefinite strike from
July 11th. Government cannot take the staff side for granted.
Monday, 25 April 2016
Govt likely to
implement 7th Pay Commission award around September-October
New
Delhi: The Central government employees will have to wait till
September-October to get higher salaries under the 7th Pay Commission.
As
per a Financial Express report, government is expecting that higher salaries
released around the festival period starting with Durga Puja and Diwali will
boost consumption, which will have a multiplier effect on the economy.
Though
the employees will get arrears with retrospective effect from January 1, no
retrospective arrears in allowances will be given. With the move, the exchequer
would be able to save around Rs 11,000 crore.
The
commission had estimated the additional outgo in FY17 due to its award at
R73,650 crore.
Source: http://zeenews.india.com
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