BEFI'S (DRAFT) CHARTER OF DEMAND
Draft Charter of Demands for 10th Bipartite Settlement
Scales of Pay
Basic Pay Scales should be restructured at the average price
index for the quarter July-September
2012 (1960 = 100) with 30% increase for the first stage in case of clerical staff and there after gradually increasing
this to 35%, maintaining the 1st to 20th stage increase
at about 1:2.8 times(approx.). In respect of the subordinate staff, loading of 35% at the first stage and
then gradually and uniformly increasing to 40% at the last stage to maintain
the ratio of 1:2 or more.
Fitment: Stage to stage basis.
Stagnation Increments
At a frequency of 2 years on reaching the maximum of the
scale of pay at the rate of the last increment in the respective scale till
superannuation or promotion.
Increase to the extent that will reflect the improvement on
the basic pay structure. Special Pay should be
restructured at the average price index for the quarter July-September 2012 (1960 = 100) with same
loading as in case of Basic Pay structure.
Special allowance of the Head Cashier and Special Assistant
to be increased adequately with additional loading after restructuring as above.
Qualification Pay/Professional
Qualification Pay
Graduation/Professional Qualification pay in case of non-subordinate
employees should be increased
in the same manner as in the case of Special Pay.
Subordinate employees should be paid qualification pay for
matriculation or any other higher qualification acquired while in service -
rates to be discussed.
For Subordinate
Staff
Subordinate staff working in cash department should notationaly be
treated having paid Special Pay of
Rs.240 and then that is to be revised as per other special pay. The Bill
Collector post in the present scenario has become redundant and this post may
be rationalized with protection for the existing incumbents if there be any.
Officiating Pay
When a clerk officiates as an officer or a subordinate staff
officiates as a clerk even for a single day he/she should be paid officiating
pay at the rates laid down in 1st
B.P. Settlement.
Fixed
Personal Pay
The rates and the incremental
component should be revised on the basis of revised scales of Pay, DA and
HRA.
Dearness
Allowance
The D.A. rate should be fixed at
a percentage of the Basic Pay, Special Pay, Graduation Pay, Professional
Qualification Pay and Officiating Pay that will reflect 100%
neutralization of the monthly change for
every point of rise or fall in the All India Working Class Consumer Price Index (General)
(Base 2001=100).
House Rent
Allowance
At the rate of
15% of BP at all centres without ceiling
On capital cost/rent receipt
basis HRA should be paid at 150% of normal entitlement.
In cases where quarter or leased
accommodation is provided no recovery of rent should be made beside non-payment
of HRA. Acceptance of offer of quarter/leased accommodation by an employee
should be optional.
Payment of HRA in branches in SEZ
and similar such areas to be made at par with project area.
Project Area Compensatory Allowance
New project areas are to be
included for the purpose of payment of Project Area Allowance.
The amounts of
the allowance should be revised adequately.
Paradip Port Town
Allowance
PPT allowance should be adequately
revised.
Transport Allowance
To be increased to Rs.800/- per
month.
Hill and Fuel Allowance
At the existing rates - no
maximum / no minimum.
Special Area Allowance
The rates should be increased
adequately.
Special attention should be given to entire Simla, Lahul and
Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh where the amount of the allowance was
actually reduced in the 8th B.P. Settlement.
Similar attention should be given to increase the allowance
in case of Assam and Meghalaya in line with employees in Central Govt./RBI.
Water Scarcity Allowance
Water Scarcity Allowance should be paid at centres where
paid by Central/State Governments and at rates at which it is paid by them.
Island Allowance / Tribal Area
Allowance
These allowances should be introduced at places where paid
by Central Government and should be paid
at rates at which the Government pays.
NER Hardship Compensatory Allowance
Incentive now being paid to certain categories of employees
should be extended to all categories of employees working in N.E. Region.
Rural Area
Hardship Allowance
Rural
Area Hardship Allowance should be introduced - rates to be discussed.
Disturbed Area Allowance
This allowance is to be introduced for the
employees working in the areas declared politically disturbed by the
Central/State Governments.
Halting
Allowance
Halting
Allowance should be revised adequately and should be paid in addition to
reimbursement of actual hotel bills.
Closing
Allowance
Closing
Allowance should be paid to all employees for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly
Closing of Accounts in addition to overtime wages.
Washing
Allowance
The
allowance should be increased from Rs.100/- to Rs.250/- per month.
Bonus
Bonus to be paid to all without
any income ceiling.
Superannuation and Medical Benefit
All the Superannuation and Medical benefit costs to
be kept outside the purview of the total wage cost.
Provident
Fund Contribution
PF
contribution in case of those who have not opted for Pension should be 12% of the pay
and the interest thereon should be 12%.
Gratuity
Gratuity at
one month’s pay for each completed year of service without any ceiling. For
calculation of Service gratuity Dearness Allowance should be taken into
consideration.
Pension
All the
employees recruited on or after 1st
April ,2010 should be brought
under the purview of
Pension Regulation 1995.
Employees on consolidated wages
prior to 01.05.2010 and converted to 1/3rd scale wages with effect
from 01.05.2010 to be covered under Pension regulation 1995.
Resigned/CRS employees are to be allowed for opting
for pension.
Pension to be updated
automatically along with Bi-partite settlements.
Uniform DA for all pensioners.
Full
pension on completion of 20 years of qualifying service.
Fixation of Basic Pension
should be on 10 month’s average pay or last pay drawn whichever is higher.
Additional pension should be
given after completion of 80 years of age.
Family Pension
Family pension should be
calculated at uniform rate of 30% of last Basic Pay in all cases subject to
minimum of Rs 4,500/-
Pension
regulation 1995
clause 39(3)(a)(1) to be amended as follows:
Twice the ordinary rate of family
pension or 50% of the last pay drawn whichever is less, from the date of death
of an employee who died in harness for a period of 10 years.
In case of death of a pensioner
twice the ordinary rate of Family pension or at the rate of 50% of the
pay last drawn whichever is less to be
continued till the pensioner would have attained the age of 67 years.
Family pension to be paid to the
unmarried /widowed /divorced daughter up to the date of her marriage/remarriage
or till the date she gets employment whichever is earlier.
Medical Aid
Should be
increased from Rs.2000/- to Rs.5000/- p.a. Cost of equipment/artificial limbs
for the physically challenged employees to be reimbursed.
Improvement in
Hospitalization/Domiciliary Treatment Scheme
100% reimbursement of the cost of
diagnostic tests (whether as per systems already existing or developed in
future) as advised by doctors, both in case of the employee or the family
members.
The existing limits for
reimbursement of hospitalization expenses including package treatment should be
adequately revised.
100% reimbursement of the cost of
medicines prescribed both in case of the employee and the family
members.
Expenses incurred in connection
with maternity, whether for normal delivery or for operative interference,
should be reimbursed to the extent of 100%.
Cost of Day Care treatment where surgery done without admission as
inpatient be reimbursed.
Alternative medicine streams to be covered.
List of treatments be enlarged for coverage under domiciliary
treatment.
Family definition to be enlarged. Increase in income limit to determine
dependency to
Rs.10, 000/- per month from
present limit of Rs.3500/-.
"AIDS" should be
added to the list of diseases covered under the provision relating to domiciliary
treatment.
Leave Fare
Concession
Maximum permissible distances in
case of 4 years bloc should be from place of work to any place in the country
and in case of 2 years block to be revised adequately.
In case of subordinate staff,
actual fare for journey in any train by any class up to AC 2 Tier and in case of clerical employees, in any train by
any class up to AC 1st class should be reimbursed.
Airfare should be reimbursed to
the employees working in Tripura up to Kolkata/Guwahati, in Meghalaya, Mizoram,
Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal
Pradesh up to Guwahati, in Andaman & Nicober Islands up to Kolkata/Chennai
and in Lakshadeep up to Cochin in addition to the train fare from
those mainland points.
In case of encashment, 100% of
the fare for the permissible distance and class of journey should be paid -
condition of minimum 1 days' leave of absence should be removed.
Definition
of Family for Medical Facility and LFC
Spouse, wholly dependent children
(including step-children and legally adopted children) and wholly dependent brothers
& sisters and parents having income of less than Rs.10, 000/- p.m.
Reimbursement
of Expenses on Road Travel
Expenses incurred for road travel
on duty / LFC between two places not connected or partially connected by rail
should be reimbursed at actual road mileage cost or at Rs.10/- per
k.m., whichever is less.
Improvement
in Leave Rules
Causal leave
should be increased to 15 days like other industries and Central Govt.
employees.
Total period
of absence including prefix and suffix should have no restriction in case of
casual leave.
Accumulation and encashment of
privilege leave on retirement up to 300 days should be allowed.
Sick leave
should be accumulated at the rate of 30 days per completed year of service
without any ceiling and should be allowed to encash the unutilized portion at
the time or retirement.
Paternity leave facility should be
introduced. Maternity leave should be
increased to 24 months from the existing limit of 12 months. Gynecological
ailments should be covered under maternity leave.
Child Care Leave for women
employees for 2 years in service period to be introduced.
Special Leave for Hysterectomy
operation to be provided in addition to Maternity Leave.
Study
Leave facility should be introduced.
Restriction
of availment of PL for 3 times a year should be abolished.
Duty Leave should be granted for
attending conciliatory proceedings/Labour Courts/Tribunals.
Special Leave should be
sanctioned for absence due to natural calamities and abnormal situations like
those created as a result of terrorist activities.
Extra-ordinary
Leave should be increased to 24 months.
Part-time Employees
Sweepers
should be employed on full-time basis only. Existing Part-time Sweepers should
be converted to
full time sweepers.
Drivers
driving Bank's car provided to Executives
These drivers should be treated
as regular employees of the bank instead of personal drivers.
Compensation
for losses due to breakage or damage to goods on Transfer
The presently stipulated maximum
amounts should be adequately increased.
Deployment of Staff
Deployment in North Eastern
Region and Hill areas should be restricted to 25 k.m. journey by road or 50
k.m. journey by train, whether within or outside the district.
Special Leave
Special Leave
facility should be
made available to
all Unions/Associations
uniformly.
Demand
Relating to Regional Rural Bank Employees
Retirement benefit including
pension to be introduced in the RRBs uniformly as per settlements in the
banking industry.
Sponsor Banks to be advised to
implement in the RRBs all the provisions of 9th Bipartite Settlement
for full time and the part time employees without withdrawing/changing the
better provisions,
if any, now existing in these Banks.
Welfare
measures
Uniform welfare scheme to be introduced in all banks.
A lump sum amount of Rs.5000/- per year be paid to
all the retirees as Medical Aid
The scheme of reimbursement of
hospitalization expenses should be extended to all the retired employees of the
Bank.
Travelling expenses incurred by
the retired employees for themselves and their spouses should be reimbursed in line with the
scheme of Leave Fare Concession available to existing employees.
Exgratia amount for Pre 1986 living retirees to be enhanced to
Rs.5000/- per month and for the spouse to Rs.4000/- per month
Date of
Effect and Operation
5 years from 1st
November 2012.
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