CONFEDERATION
OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES & WORKERS
1st
Floor, North Avenue PO Building, New Delhi – 110001
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Circular No. 13
Dated
2.3.2014
The Union Cabinet approved the Finance Ministry’s proposal on terms of reference
of the 7th CPC. We have placed the full text of the same on our website.
None of the suggestions
made by the Staff Side was accepted by the Government.
However, our concern over the date of effect seems to have been taken note of. The terms of reference has left the effective
date of its recommendations to be decided by the Commission itself. A united
stand backed up by struggles will enable us to clinch this demand in our
favour. Undoubtedly it has been our endeavours and the two days strike action
that has compelled the Government to have a rethinking on their earlier stand
of Decennial (Ten years} wage revision for Central Government employees and the
date of effect as 1/1/2016
Unlike on the earlier occasion, the Government has not decided
to grant Interim Relief and merger of Dearness allowance. Nor has it
asked the Commission to consider and make appropriate recommendation in this
regard specifically. As pointed out in our earlier communication, inclusion of
a labour representative in the Commission being not an idea the UPA Government
cherishes, for it is diametrically opposite to its economic policies and
ideology, they have stuck to the position of sandwiching the Honourable Judge
with bureaucrats. In the light of the agreement penned by Com. Mahadeviah, the General Secretary
of the recognised GDS union with the Postal Board to the effect that a separate
one man committee will look into the service conditions of the Grameen Dak
Sewaks, it is not surprising that the Government chose to ignore our demand to
cover them within the ambit of the 7th CPC. Our demands for parity between the
past and present pensioners and scrapping of the new pension scheme also stand
rejected.
As you are aware, the 6th CPC (and the earlier Commissions also)
had refused to entertain the demand for removal of anomalies despite Government
referring the same to the Commission specifically. Therefore, the omnibus
clause in the terms
of reference requiring
the Commission to submit interim reports may not be of any help to us to raise
the anomalies before the 7th CPC.
At the conclusion of the meeting held on 24/10/2013 by Secretary, DoPT, with the staff side on terms of referenceof the 7th CPC, it was agreed that the
Government will consider our suggestion in the matter and will convene another
meeting with the presence of Secretary (Expenditure) to iron out the differences, if any, and explore
the possibilities of an agreement in the matter. But no such meeting was
convened and no attempt was made by the official side to arrive at an agreed Terms of Reference.
We must now react to the arbitrary and unilateral decision of
the Government. We appeal all the State Secretaries, District Secretaries and
Branch Secretaries of the affiliated organisations and the State/District COCs
to immediately send the following Savingram to the Prime Minister.
THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WORKING IN THE ....... (NAME OF
THE STATION)/ OFFICE OF...........................CONDEMN THE ATTITUDE OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN NOT HONOURING ITS COMMITMENT OF HOLDING DISUCSSION WITH THE STAFF
SIDE JCM NATIONAL COUNCIL BEFORE FINALISING THE TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE 7TH CPC
AND DEMAND IMMEIDATE ACCEPTANCE OF :
(i) Interim Relief
(ii) Merger of DA
(iii) Bringing the Grameen Dak Sewaks within the ambit of the
7th CPC
(iv) Date of effect from 1/1/2014
(v) Parity in
pension entitlement
between the past and present pensioners
(vi) Coverage of the existing defined
benefit pension scheme
to employees recruited on or after 1.1.2004.
(vii) Include a representative of the Labour in the 7th Central
Pay Commission.
While the National Convention scheduled to be held at Nagpur will chalk out
detailed and phased programmes of action……………
On
04.03.2014
There were talks of DA merger, interim relief and hiking
of retirement age to 62. Even various union leaders had expressed views that
some of these may be implemented.
The employees especially at lower levels reeling under the impact of rise in prices of essential commodities had considered these demands as genuine and expected the government to do something. The only thing that the government did was announcement of the seventh pay commission. And, it is not only election gift this announcement also was in accordance to 13th Finance Commission's recommendations and demands from various employeeunion/federation.
All hopes are now going in the goal of newly constituted 7th CPC and employees have to wait its Interim Report as Govt approved terms of 7th CPC with condition to give interim reports if any. However the recommendations of 7th CPC to be implement after Govt approval all these exercise will take more time and expectation for merger of DA/DR from 7th CPC in view of coming pay revision is also an illogical fact. Then what about Interim Relief? The word "Interim Relief" is not mentioned in 7th CPC terms of reference approved by Govt. Now 7th CPC have to invite Organisation/Employee Union for representation/discussion and merger of da and interim relief may be approved in this way. Implementation of main recommendations of 7th CPC is not expected before 2016. As per media hype the government has given another election rarity as announcement of 10% DA hike. All employees knows that this is only a procedure that will be automatically done once in 6 months and is based on inflation data.
The employees especially at lower levels reeling under the impact of rise in prices of essential commodities had considered these demands as genuine and expected the government to do something. The only thing that the government did was announcement of the seventh pay commission. And, it is not only election gift this announcement also was in accordance to 13th Finance Commission's recommendations and demands from various employeeunion/federation.
All hopes are now going in the goal of newly constituted 7th CPC and employees have to wait its Interim Report as Govt approved terms of 7th CPC with condition to give interim reports if any. However the recommendations of 7th CPC to be implement after Govt approval all these exercise will take more time and expectation for merger of DA/DR from 7th CPC in view of coming pay revision is also an illogical fact. Then what about Interim Relief? The word "Interim Relief" is not mentioned in 7th CPC terms of reference approved by Govt. Now 7th CPC have to invite Organisation/Employee Union for representation/discussion and merger of da and interim relief may be approved in this way. Implementation of main recommendations of 7th CPC is not expected before 2016. As per media hype the government has given another election rarity as announcement of 10% DA hike. All employees knows that this is only a procedure that will be automatically done once in 6 months and is based on inflation data.
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