NC JCM Publishes the details of the meeting with 7th Pay Commission on 9.6.2015
National Council JCM Staff Side Publishes the details of the meeting held on 9.6.2015 with 7th Pay Commission
Brief of the meeting held on 09.06.2015 between NC/JCM(Staff Side) and 7th CPC
No.NC/JCM/7th CPC/2015
Dated: June 9, 2015
All Constituents of
NC/JCM(Staff Side),
Dear Comrades,
Sub:
Brief of the meeting held on 09.06.2015 between NC/JCM(Staff Side) and 7th CPC
A meeting of National Council JCM Staff Side with 7th Pay Commission
was held on 09.06.2015 at New Delhi. It was last meeting of 7th Pay
Commission with JCM. JCM had already submitted memorandum regarding
common issues of Central Government Employees to 7th CPC on 30th June,
2015. JCM submitted memorandum in two parts. Part one deals with Pay,
allowances, advances, facilities, benefits et., Part II is concerning
retirement benefits, viz Gratuity, Pension, Medical facilities etc.
Today delegation of NC JCM Staff side went for final deliberations
regarding issues of central government employees and pensioners with 7th
CPC.
Detailed discussion was held on the following points:-
1.
Principles of Wage Determination: Staff Side
insisted that 7th CPC should adopt the need based minimum wage formula
at the minimum level;the intrinsic value of the assigned job at the
intermediary level; the necessity to keep the relativity both at
horizontal and vertical level and the need to provide a reasonable
salary for the top bureaucrats, taking into account the perks,
privileges, benefits, allowances and concessions that go with the posts.
7th Pay Commission gave positive response on this.
2.
Minimum Wage & Ratio of Minimum and Maximum Pay:-
JCM urged that the Need-Based Minimum Wage concept to compute pay at
the minimum level may be adopted. Pay Commission should take into
account the outside rates to determine the pay package at senior levels
of bureaucracy but maintain the ratio between the minimum and maximum at
1 : 8 (MTS to Secretary to Govt. of India). Staff Side insisted that
minimum pay at lowest level of Group C staff should be Rs. 26000. 7th
Pay Commission gave positive assurance on this.
3.
Proposed Pay Structure and Rate of Increment:–
Staff side demanded open- ended pay scales to ensure that no employee
stagnates without increment. We have suggested only 14 Pay scales.
Minimum of which is Rs. 26000 and Maximum Rs. 78000 for Group C
employees. We suggested that the multiplication factor (26000/7000 =
3.7) may be applied uniformly in all the cases to arrive at the revised
pay in the new scales of pay.We also suggested that the benefit on
promotion, therefore, should be: two increments in the feeder cadre. 7th
CPC agreed to act positively on this.
4.
Career Progression: Grant five promotions in the service career:-
The three time bound scheme of MACP instead of improving the situation
has been found less beneficial and has therefore not gone to address the
inherent problem of demotivation that has crept in due to the high
level of stagnation.The discontent amongst the employees in the matter
is of high magnitude today. The VII CPC therefore, should recommend that
the cadre reviews are undertaken wherever not done to ensure five
hierarchical promotions to all employees in their career on the pattern
obtaining for Group A Officers. 7th Pay Commission assured to act
positively on this.
5.
Bonus:-Presently the PLB and adhoc bonus are
calculated on the deemed provision that one’s total emoluments is only
Rs. 3500/-. This is an absolutely irrational stipulation and must be
removed. We request that the Commission to recommend to the Government
to remove the said stipulation and grant the bonus on the basis of the
actual emolument of the employee. 7th pay commission agreed to recommend
our demand with positive note.
6.
New Pension Scheme:-We requested VII CPC to
review and recommend the scarping of NPS in the light of the
observations made by Hon’ble supreme court that pension is a fundamental
justify. We also insisted that compulsory imposition of NPS on
employees has made it discriminatory and recommendation for scrapping
NPS and the PFRDA Act may be made. 7th Pay Commission was very much
sympathetic.
7.
Pension and other Retirement Benefits:-Staff side
demanded that the amount of pension must be enough to enable a
pensioner to live free from want with decency, independence, and
self-respect and at a standard equivalent at the pre-retirement level.
We also urged pay commission to examine the principles which should
govern the structure of Pension and other retirement benefits, including
revision of pension and granting parity between past and future
pensioners. 7th CPC assured positive approach towards pensioners.
8.
Parity in pay scales – We demanded that, where
recruitment rules, training etc. are same, they should be brought into
one singular grade/pay scale. Giving example of parity to Stenographers
with the Ministry and Subordinate Offices. Similarly, in other common
categories like Rajbhasha, Paramedical Staff etc.
9.
Insurance Scheme was discussed(earlier also) in
detail. It was told by the Pay Commission that something substantial
should be done in this regard; and also to consider the issue of
enhanced gratuity, for which 7th CPC was seen willing to consider the
same.
10.
Educational Assistance – we have demanded for
Educational Assistance for two children, instead of two eldest children,
and also to pay the same for Post Graduate and Professional Courses.
Pay Commission has agreed to consider it up to Graduation level.
Yours faithfully,
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(Shiva Gopal Mishra)
General Secretary
Source: NC JCM Staff Side (www.ncjcmstaffside.com)
