The Preliminary Discussion held between AIRF/JCM on 28-05-2014, JCM NC has submitted Interim Memorandum on interim relief and Merger of DA. 1. Pay scales are calculated on the basis of pay drawn pay in pay band + GP + 100% DA by employee as on 01-01-2014. 2. 7th CPC report should be implemented w.e.f. 01-01-2014. 3. Scrap New Pension Scheme and cover all employees under Old Pension and Family Pension Scheme. 4. JCM has proposed minimum wage for MTS (Skilled) Rs.26,000 p.m. 5. Ratio of minimum and maximum wage should be 1:8. 6. General formula for determination of pay scale based on minimum living wage demanded for MTS is pay in PB+GP x 3.7. 7. Annual rate of increment @ 5% of the pay. 8. Fixation of pay on promotion = 2 increments and difference of pay between present and promotional posts (minimum Rs.3000). 9. The pay structure demanded is as under:- Exiting Proposed (in Rs.) PB-1, GP Rs.1800 26,000 PB-1, GP Rs.1900] PB-1, GP Rs.2000] 33, 000 PB-1, GP Rs. 2400] PB-1, GP Rs.2800] 46,000 PB-2, GP Rs.4200 56,000 PB-2, GP Rs.4600] 74,000 PB-2, GP Rs.5400 78,000 10. Dearness Allowances on the basis of 12 monthly average of CPI, Payment on 1st Jan and 1st July every year. 11. Overtime Allowances on the basis of total Pay+DA+Full TA. 12 Liabilities of all Government dues of persons died in harness be waived. 13. Transfer Policy – Group `C and `D Staff should not be transferred. DoPT should issue clear cut guideline as per 5th CPC recommendation. Govt. should from a Transfer Policy in each department for transferring on mutual basis on promotion. Any order issued in violation of policy framed be cancelled by head of department on representation. 14. Transport Allowance - X Class Cities Y Class Cities Pay up to Rs.75,000 Rs.7500 + DA Rs.3750 + DA Pay above Rs.75,000 Rs.6500 + DA Rs.3500 + DA 13. Deputation Allowance double the rates and should be paid 10% of the pay at same station and 20% of the pay at outside station. 14. Classification of the post should be executive and non-executive instead of present Group A,B.C. 15. Special Pay which was replaced with SPL/Allowance by 4th CPC be bring back to curtail pay scales. 16. Scrap downsizing, outsourcing and contracting of govt. jobs. 17. Regularize all casual labour and count their entire service after first two year, as a regular service for pension and all other benefits. They should not be thrown out by engaging contractors workers. 18. The present MACPs Scheme be replaced by giving five promotion after completion of 8,15,21,26 and 30 year of service with benefits of stepping up of pay with junior. 19. PLB being bilateral agreement, it should be out of 7th CPC perview. 20. Housing facility:- (a) To achieve 70% houses in Delhi and 40% in all other towns to take lease accommodation and allot to the govt. employees. (b) Land and building acquired by it department may be used for constructing houses for govt. employees. 21. House Building Allowance :- (a) Simplify the procedure of HBA (b) Entitle to purchase second and used houses 22. Common Category – Equal Pay for similar nature of work be provided. 23. CP appointment – remove ceiling of 5% and give appointment within Three months. 24. Traveling Allowance:- ‘A1’ and ‘A’ Class Cities Other Cities A. Executives Rs.5000+DA per day Rs.3500+DA per day B. Non-Executives Rs.4000+DA per day Rs.2500+DA per day 25. Composite Transfer Grant :- Executive Class 6000 kg by Goods Train/ Rate per km by road 8 Wheeler Wagon Rs.50+DA(Rs.1 per kg and single container per km) Non-Executive Class 3000 kg – do – -do- 26. Children Education Allowance should be allowed up to Graduate, Post Graduate, and all Professional Courses. Allow any two children for Children Education Allowance. 27. Fixation of pay on promotion – two increments in feeder grade with minimum benefit of Rs.3000. 28. House Rent Allowance X Class Cities 60% Other Classified Cities 40% Unclassified Locations 20% 29. City Allowance `X’ Class Cities `Y’ Class Cities A. Pay up to Rs.50,000 – 10% , 5% B. Pay above Rs.50,000 6% minimum Rs 5000 3% minimum Rs.2500 30. Patient Care Allowance to all para-medical and staff working in hospitals. 31. All allowances to be increased by three times. 32. NE Region benefits – Payment of Special Duty Allowance @ 37.5 of pay. 33. Training:- Sufficient budget for in-service training. 34. Leave Entitlement (i) Increase Casual Leave 08 to 12 days & 10 days to 15 days. (ii) Declare May Day as National Holiday (iii) In case of Hospital Leave, remove the ceiling of maximum 24 months leave and 120 days full payment and remaining half payment. (iv) Allow accumulation of 400 days Earned Leave (v) Allow encashment of 50% leave while in service at the credit after 20 years Qualifying Service. (vi) National Holiday Allowance (NHA) – Minimum one day salary and eligibility criteria to be removed for all Non Executive Staff. (vii) Permit encashment of Half Pay Leave. (viii) Increase Maternity Leave to 240 days to female employees & increase 30 days Paternity Leave to male employees. 35. LTC (a) Permission to travel by air within and outside the NE Region. (b) To increase the periodicity once in a two year. (c) One visit outside country in a lifetime 36. Income Tax: (i) Allow 30% standard deduction to salaried employees. (ii) Exempt all allowances. (iii) Raise the ceiling limit as under: (a) General – 2 Lakh to 5 Lakh (b) Sr. Citizen – 2.5 Lakh to 7 Lakh (c) Sr. Citizen above 80 years of age – 5 Lakh to 10 Lakh (iv) No Income Tax on pension and family pension and Dearness Relief. 35. (a) Effective grievance handling machinery for all non-executive staff. (b) Spot settlement (c) Maintain schedule of three meetings in a year (d) Department Council be revived at all levels (e) Arbitration Award be implemented within six month, if not be discussed with Staff Side before rejection for finding out some modified form of agreement. 36. Appoint Arbitrator for shorting all pending anomalies of the 6th CPC. 37. Date of Increment – 1st January and 1st July every year. In case of employees retiring on 31st December and 30th June, they should be given one increment on last day of service, i.e. 31st December and 30th June, and their retirements benefits should be calculated by adding the same. 38. General Insurance: Active Insurance Scheme covering risk upto Rs. 7,50,000/- to Non Executive & Rs. 3,50,000/- to Skilled staff by monthly contribution of Rs. 750/- & Rs. 350/- respectively. 39. Point to point fixation of pay. 40. Extra benefits to Women employees (i) 30% reservation for women. (ii) Posting of husband and wife at same station. (iii) One month special rest for chronic disease (iv) Conversion of Child Care Leave into Family Care Leave (v) Flexi time 41. Gratuity: Existing ceiling of 16 ½ months be removed and Gratuity be paid @ half month salary for every year of qualifying service. Remove ceiling limit of Rs.10 Lakh for Gratuity. 42. Pension: (i) Pension @ 67% of Last Pay Drawn (LPD) instead of 50% presently. (ii) Pension after 10 years of qualifying service in case of resignation. (iii) Increase pension age-based as under: 65 years – 70% of LPD 70 years – 75% of LPD 75 years – 80% of LPD 80 years – 85% of LPD 85 years – 90% of LPD 90 years – 100% of LPD (iv) Parity of pension to retirees before 1.1.2006. (v) Enhanced family pension should be same in case of death in harness and normal death. (vi) After 10 years, family pension should be 50% of LPD. (vii) Family pension to son upto the age of 28 years looking to the recruitment age. (viii) Fixed Medical Allowance (FMA) @ Rs.2500/- per month. (ix) Extend medical facilities to parents also. (x) HRA to pensioners. (xi) Improvement in ex-gratia pension to CPF/SRPF retirees up to 1/3rd of full pension. Thanks and congratulations to Com. Shiva Gopal Mishra, Secretary, Staff Side, NC/JCM and all the members of the NC/JCM(Staff Side) Source:AIRF Proposed Pay Structure in the Final Memorandum of NC JCM to 7th CPC Posted: 02 Jul 2014 10:31 PM PDT Chapter —VII Proposed Pay Structure and Rate of Increment In the preceding chapters we have dealt with the various principles of pay determination as was enunciated by the successive Pay Commissions. The 6 CPC introduced the new concept of Pay Band and Grade Pay. We are not able to comprehend any logical methodology having been adopted by the 6th CPC in constructing the Pay Band and Grade Pay. In the ultimate analysis, we found that there had been no uniform multiplication factor. It varied from 2.2 time to 3. The changes effected by the Government while implementing the recommendations of the 6th cpc further compounded the confusion and making t more irrational and arbitrary. The 6 cPC in their report stated that they have upgraded certain pay scales having appreciated the contention made by the employees organizations. They merged certain other pay scales in an effort to delayering the functions. But the new pay that emerged from such upgradation/merger was not equivalent to the higher pay scales in the said group. For instance, the erstwhile pay scales of Rs.5000-8000, 5500-9000 and 6500-10500 were merged. The multiplication factor for pay band construction was 1.86 times of the minimum. Therefore the pay band for the pre merged pay scales was determined to begin at Rs.9300/-. Having merged, the pay band must have begun at 12,090/-, i.e. 1.86 times of 6500/- in which the other pay scales were merged. 7.2 The manner in which the Grade pay was devised is also questionable. At the lower level the Grade Pay progresses @ Rs.100/- ,i.e. 1800, 1900, 2000, etc. The pay in the Band + Grade Pay at the entry level is 5200 + 1800 = 7000. An employee is entitled for 3% increment every year. He gets a financial benefit of Rs. 210 every year on account an increment whereas on promotion his grade pay gets increased by just Rs.100/. only. The Grade Pay was devised at 40% of the maximum of the pre revised time scale of pay. The maximum of any time scale of pay will depend upon the rate of increment and the span of the scale of pay. The ratio between the minimum and the maximum of all pay scales was not uniform, rather it could not be uniform. Therefore, prescribing Grade Pay as a percentage of such variable maximum, in our opinion, was erroneous. Normally fitment benefit represent the gap between pre revised minimum and the revised minimum. The 6th CPC recommendation of Grade Pay did not serve this purpose also. Having been expressed in absolute quantum amount it gave varied benefit in different pay bands as also at different stages in the same pay bands. 7.3 The Grade Pay system brought about various anomalies, which were raised at the NAC but found no resolution despite discussions on several occasions in the last 6 years. We are of the firm view that the 7” CPC should revert to the Pay Scale System which has been time tested. We have constructed the pay scales maintaining the relativities with the time scale of pay suggested by both 5’ and 6th cPC• 7.4 While constructing the pay scales we have taken the rate of increments at 5% instead of 3% presently available. We have done so on the ground that most of the PSUs including the banking industries provide the incremental rate at 5% and over a period of time it raises the salary level of the personnel. We therefore request that the 7th CPC may recommend the rate of annual increment at 5%. Incidentally we may also state that the uniform date of increment prescribed by the 6th CPC has encountered certain problems and anomalies. We, therefore, suggest that the 7th cpc may recommend, for administrative expediency, two specific dates as increment dates, Viz. 1st January and 1st July. Those recruited/appointed/promoted during the period between l January and 30th June will have their increment date on 1stt January and those recruited/appointed/promoted between 1st July and 31st December will have it on 1st July next year. This apart we request the Commission to specifically recommend that those who retire on 30th June or 31St December are granted one increment on the last day of their service. 7.5 We have also felt that a further reduction in the number of pay scales is needed. While constructing the pay scales we have removed those pay scales pertaining to Grade Pay of Rs.1900, 2400, 4600, 8700 and the scale of pay of Rs. 75500-80000. We are of the opinion that the instrument of Special Pay which was in operation earlier should be brought back to address the need of intermediary grades in certain organizations. The Associations and Federations representing the employees and officers of various departments and various categories will submit their memorandum indicating the pay scales to be assigned to the categories of the employees and officers they represent taking into account the nature of functions assigned to those categories separately. 7.6 Presently, functional promotion is made to the next hierarchical position whereas MACP promotion ¡s Grade Pay based, irrespective of the fact whether a particular Grade Pay exist in the hierarchy or not in the concerned department. Our suggestion to reduce the number of pay scales go a great extent to obviate the difficulty encountered due to the dual system of promotion. 7.7 We have constructed open- ended pay scales. This is to ensure that no employee stagnates without increment. The pay of the Secretary and the Cabinet Secretary has been kept as a fixed amount as has been the recommendation of the 6th CPC. In consonance with our view on the need for further de-layering, we have suggested only 14 Pay scales indicating in the table the minimum of each of them. The said 14 pay scales are given below: In Table 7.2, the corresponding pay scales of the 6” CPC recommended Grade Pay are given for reference. Table No. 7.1. Proposed pay scale minimum. Sl. No. Pay scale No. Present PB PB No. Grade Pay Proposed minimum of the pay scale. 1 S.1 5200-20200 PB.1 1800 26000 2 S-2 5200-20200 PB 1 2000 33000 3 S-3 5200-20200 PB 1 2800 46000 4 S-4 9300-34800 PB 2 4200 56000 5 S-5 9300-34800 PB 2 4800 74000 6 S-6 9300-34800 PB 2 5400 78000 7 S-7 15600-39100 PB 3 5400 88000 8 S-8 15600-39100 PB 3 6600 102000 9 S-9 15600-39100 PB 3 7600 120000 10 S-10 37400-67000 PB 4 8900 148000 11 S-11 37400-67000 PB 4 10000 162000 12 S-12 75500-80000 HAG 0 193000 13 S-13 80000( Fixed ) Apex scale. 0 213000 14 S-14 90000 (Fixed) Cabinet Secy 0 240000 Table 7.2. New Pay scale minimum SL.No. Grade pay of 6thCPC Minimum of the new pay scale 1 1800 26000 2 1900 31000 3 2000 33000 4 2400 41000 5 2800 46000 6 4200 56000 7 4600 66000 8 4800 74000 9 5400 78000 10 5400 in PB3 88000 11 6600 102000 12 7600 120000 13 8700 139000 14 8900 148000 15 10000 162000 16 12000 193000 17 75000-80000 202000 18 80000 fixed 213000 19 90000 fixed 240000 Source:NC JCM
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