Tamilnadu increases DA for transport workers

In a move that will benefit over one lakh employees of all eight government transport corporations in the state, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday increased the Dearness Allowance of transport employees from 51 per cent to 58 per cent, with effect from July 1 this year. 

Punjab enhances conveyance allowance for police, revises pay scales of Gram Sewaks/Sewikas

The Punjab Government has decided to enhance conveyance allowance to Inspectors, Sub Inspectors, Assistant Sub Inspectors, Head Constables and Constables in Punjab Police.

According to an official spokesperson, now the Inspectors would now be entitled for Rs 600, Sub Inspectors Rs 550, Assistant Sub Inspectors Rs 500 and Head Constables Rs 450 while Constables would be entitled for Rs 400 per month. He said that the orders would come into force with effect from December 1, 2011.

The Punjab Government has revised the pay scales of Gram Sewaks/Gram Sewikas with effect from December 1, 2011.

An official spokesman said that Gram Sewaks and Gram Sewikas would be entitled for a pay band of Rs 10300-34800 with grade pay of Rs 3200. He said that now the gram sewaks/sewikas would get the initial pay of Rs 13500 in place of Rs 7810.

Source : Punjabnewsline.

Punjab to implement original ACP scheme from May 28, 2009

The Punjab Government decided to implement the Assured Career Progression (ACP) scheme of November 3, 2006 with effect from May 28, 2009 instead of December 1, 2011.A decision to this effect was taken at a high level meeting presided over by the Chief Secretary  SC Agrawal, with the delegation of Punjab Mulazam Sangarsh Committee led by its convener.  Ranbir Singh Dhillon here at Punjab Bhawan late last evening. The meeting was especially convened at the behest of Punjab Chief Minister  Parkash Singh Badal.

W.B Transport trade unions threaten strike

With consistent delay in the payment of salary to about 24,000 employees of the five state transport corporations, Left and Congress-backed trade unions are now threatening to go on a strike.

Punjab National Bank's salary scheme for Kerala Govt employees

Punjab National Bank has announced a special income assets comment package for Kerala State Government employees.

Under this ‘Total Freedom Salary Account scheme,’ employees can maintain a zero balance account.. There will not be any form of charges underneath a scheme. On a day of income a volume will be credited instantly. There is also a sustenance for allege income in a form of overdraft facility, Mr K.V. Rajesh, Circle Head of a bank, said.

Media workers warn protest against delay in wage boards implementation

New Delhi, Nov 24 (PTI) An apex body of workers of the media organisations today warned of nation-wide dharnas against non-implementation of wage recommendations by newspapers and news agencies even after their notification by the government. A decision to this effect was taken at an emergency meeting of Confederation of Newspaper and News Agency Employees' Organisations (CNNAEO), representing prominent workers bodies of media organisations across the country.

Karnataka issued Interim Relief order for pensioners of local bodies, educational institutes etc.

"..................Accordingly, Government are pleased to sanction Interim Relief at the rate of 15% of basic pension/family pension with effect from 1st November 2011 to the  State Government pensioners/family pensioners and  pensioners/family pensioners of local bodies and  aided educational institutions and retired non-teaching staff of the Universities. 
3.      This order shall not be applicable to pensioners/family pensioners who were  drawing pay in  the UGC,AICTE, ICAR and  FNJPC  scales of pay and who retired on or after 1st January 2006.  ......"


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Punjab notified special allowance for employees

The Punjab government today notified the enhanced special allowance to certain categories of employees of Punjab Civil Secretariat and of equivalent offices from June 1, 2011. This decision would also be applicable to those categories of employees of Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretariat, Financial Commissioner's Secretariat, Punjab Raj Bhawan, Legal Remembrance's Office and Punjab Public Service Commission also.

Disclosing this here today, a spokesman of the State government said that special allowance rates would be as under; Superintendent Grade-1 (Rs.1200), Private Secretary (Rs. 1200), Personal Assistant (Rs. 600) , Senior Assistant(Rs. 480), Junior Auditor/Auditor(Rs. 480),    Senior Scale Stenographer(Rs. 480), Junior Assistant(Rs. 480), Junior Scale Stenographer(Rs. 300) , Steno-Typist( Rs. 240) and Clerk ( Rs. 240).   

Source : Punjabnewsline

New Tatkal Scheme introduced for Rail booking

Indian Railways’ new ticket booking rules under the Tatkal Sewa will come into force from today (21st November-2011

Under the new rule, advance reservation period of Tatkal tickets has been reduced from two days to one day (24 hours).

West Bengal to introduce Child Care Leave

Working mothers may soon heave a sigh of relief. The TMC government is planning to introduce a two-year child care leave for women staffers, so that working mothers can devote more time to their children, especially when the children are ill or need assistance during examinations. 

Haryana enhanced 12% Dearness Allowance

Chandigarh, Nov 19 (PTI) The Haryana government today increased the Dearness Allowance for its employees by 12 per cent with effect from July one this year. The DA would now be 127 per cent of the basic pay, a Finance Department spokesman said. The enhanced DA for the month of November would be paid in this month's salary, he said. The arrears from July to October 2011 would be paid in the December salary, the spokesman said. It may be mentioned that this D.A. is on unrevised scales.

West Bengal hiked ministers' allowances

The debt trapped WB Govt. has substantially increased the allowance of ministers. In the left regime, Cabinet Ministers were entitled to a consolidated allowance of Rs 7500 per month. In addition they were paid Rs 225 and Rs 300 per day for tour inside state and outside state respectively.
The new allowance is fixed as daily basis - Rs 1000 per day irrespective of any tour or work in office. It is effected from 1st September 2011.  As the assembly is not in motion, the hike has been effected by an ordinance, perhaps to do it silently without much uproar. It is significant that the miserable economic condition of the state treasury did not make any constraint to increase the take home pay of the people's representatives unlike the employees. The deprived employees, lagging 23% behind in D.A with respect to their counterparts in central and neighboring states may console there selves  as at least their bosses are well paid now. 
[With inputs from Anandabazar Patrika]

Karnataka Interim Relief hiked to 15%, Order Issued

The State government employees will now get a 15 per cent hike in their basic salary as interim relief under the Sixth Pay Commission.

Kerala : 7% hike in DA/DR;Orders Issued

Government of Kerala have issued orders enhancing the Dearness Allowance / Dearness Relief by 7% with effect from 01.07.2011.
Different group of employees in the pre revised scales, teachers under UGC / AICTE / Medical Education Schemes / Employees of state PSUs, autonomous bodies / staff in the 1997 pay scales etc. has been awarded Dearness Allowance as per the order.
The arrear is to be credited in PF and may be withdrawn only after 30.09.2015 or on retirement, whichever is earlier.
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Cabinet approves amendments to Pension Regulatory Bill.

The news just came in that Cabinet has approved Pension Regulatory Bill with certain amendments.

UP declares "Restricted Holiday" today[16.11] to honour freedom fighter

Lucknow, Nov 15 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government has announced holiday tomorrow to observe the martyrdom of freedom fighter Uda Devi, who sacrificed her life fighting against British rule.
It will a restricted holiday, officials said tonight.
Uda Devi sacrificed her life on November 16 after killing dozens of British soldiers from atop of a tree at Sikanderbagh in Lucknow.

Punjab govt notifies bonanza for employees

Chandigarh, Nov 15 (PTI) Increased house rent for employees posted in Patiala and Bathinda cities and special additional increment for group–D staff are some of bonanzas the Punjab government today doled out for its employees. "The Punjab government notified the bonanza for major section of its employees, including special grade pay to certain categories," a spokesman said. Special additional increment for drivers and group–D staff, five per cent additional house rent for employees entitled for rent free accommodation were also notified. Employees working in Patiala and Bathinda cities, which were given special status by the state government, would be entitled for House Rent Allowance at the rate of 20 per cent of the basic pay from December 1, the spokesman said.
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Maharashtra employees observing strike today

State-run hospitals, primary healthcare centres, and dairies will be the most affected services today
 To express their ire over the state government's failure to implement the benefits of the Sixth Pay Commission, over 20 lakh government employees across the state are going on a day's strike. The strike is bound to cripple state-run hospitals, primary healthcare centers, and dairies. Besides government drivers, gardeners, canteen staff, including those working at Mantralaya will remain off-duty.

Initial salary of newly recruited P.O. and Clerk in Nationalised Bank

We are frequently receiving emails and comments in this blog asking the initial salary of new entrants in the Nationalised Bank. As the PSU Banks are hiring a lot in these days, the people want to know the salary structure of the newly recruited workforce after the 9th bipartite. We are reproducing the same for your convenience.

Air India to pay employees October salary on Monday

Cash-strapped Air India today released an instalment of pending allowances to its employees and said it would pay the last month's salary on Monday. 

"We have today released Productivity-Linked Incentive (PLI) for all eligible employees and will be paying the October salary on Monday to all our staff," a top airline official told PTI.

Wage Boards’ recommendations notified

The Labour and Employment Ministry on Friday notified the recommendations of the Justice G.R. Majithia Wage Boards for the journalists and other employees of the newspapers/news agencies, which was approved by the Union Cabinet on October 25.
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IBA issued circular of D.A. increase for Nov/Dec/Jan

IBA issued circular effecting increase of Dearness Allowance for workmen and officers for Nov/Dec 2011 and January 2012. As informed earlier, the increase is 41 slabs resulting present D.A. @ 60.15% of pay.
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Meghalaya hikes Dearness Allowance

To tide over inflation because of the price rise of commodities, the Meghalaya government has effected a six per cent hike in dearness allowance for its employees and pensioners.

According to the recent notification in this regard, the government has increased the dearness allowance of the state government employees, pensioners and family pension holders from the present rate of 43 per cent to 49 per cent.

The dearness allowance will have a retrospective effect from July 1 this year.

What will be D.A. for January 2012 ?

It may very early to calculate the exact increase as we are only in the half way mark so far as AICPIN data is concerned. The figure for July, August and September 2011 is with us, which is 193,194 & 197 respectively. If the same trend continues, we can calculate the D.A as 7% from 1st of next year. But if the average of the last three months, i.e. Oct to Dec 2011 falls short to the extent of average of 196 , the increase will be 6% in D.A. terms. In other words, the total of AICPIN figure for the coming 3 months should be 589 or more to get the D.A. @ 7%..
We will try to update the viewers as and when new data is available. So let's keep fingers crossed !

Sixth Pay Commission to apply on pre-2006 retirees also: CAT

In a relief to senior citizens, who retired from government service before 2006, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has directed the Centre to re-fix their pension on the basis of recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission (VI CPC).

The order will provide relief to thousands of such retired government servants whose pension would increase substantially.

SBI strike deferred, no new date announced

State Bank of India (SBI) officers Union on Saturday deferred the two-day nation-wide strike, which was to have begun from November 8, after a conciliatory meeting with the management of the bank.
 The call given by the All-India State Bank Officers Federation (AISBOF) for a two-day countrywide strike on November 8 and 9 has been deferred, union sources said.
  A decision to this effect was taken late this evening, the sources said."The strike has been deferred as understanding on certain issues has been reached with the management," AISBOF General Secretary G D Nadaf told PTI. 

Keeping in mind the convenience of customers and reputation of the bank, the union decided to defer the two-day countrywide strike, he said, adding that dialogue with the management is still ongoing with respect to the remaining issues. 

Nadaf claimed that the management has agreed to their demand for adequate compensation to officers working on holidays. The management has also given assurances on issues related to transfers and promotion of staff to officer cadre, he said. 
 The country's largest lender with a customer base of over 13.60 crore has about 13,560 branches spread across the country.
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Strike will damage customer confidence: SBI Chairman

State Bank of India today termed the strike called by its officers for November 8 and 9 as unfortunate and said that it would damage the customers' interest and confidence. 

Bank association against Khandelwal recommendation of variable pay.

All India bank Officers Confederation strongly opposed Khandelwal recommendation of variable pay.
On behalf of the organisation, Mr Nadaf, Gen. Secy. has sent a communication to IBA opposing the issue on 2.11.2011. We represent the communication of Mr Nadaf to IBA hereunder :-

Majethia wage notification soon, Ministry of Law approved notification file.

The Law and Justice Ministry late on Thursday night cleared the notification for the implementation of the recommendations of the Wage Boards for the journalists and other employees of the newspapers/news agencies and sent it to the Labour and Employment ministry for gazetting it.

Karnataka likely to increase Interim Relief to 15%, Associations demand effect from 1st April

The State Government Employees’ Association president L Byrappa on Thursday claimed that Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda had assured to consider their demand to increase the interim relief announced under the Sixth Pay Commission from 12.5 per cent to 15 per cent.

All India strike by SBI officers on 8th & 9th Nov. 2011

STRIKE NOTICE
'Please take notice under Sub-section (i) of Section 22 of the Industrial Disputes Act, that, the members of All India State Bank Officers Federation consisting of Fourteen Circle Affiliates working in Branches and Administrative and other Offices of State Bank of India  all over the country, will observe, two-days country wide strike on 8th and 9th November, 2011. "

Punjab cabinet approves ACP scheme , child care leave and other benefits

The Punjab cabinet today{02/11} introduced the  Assured Career Progression Scheme (ACP) 4-9-14  in the  pre- May 28 , 2009  format w.e.f. November 1, 2011 .  However, the employees who got the consequential  benefits under the modified ACP would not be deprived of the same.  The cabinet also decided to regularize all daily wage  and work charged employees in different departments,  boards and corporations in the state. This is in addition  to an across the board Special Permanent Grade Pay of  Rs. 150  plus allowances including DA, HRA to all its  employees up to Pay Band 3 with Grade Pay of Rs.5400   and would also be included to determine pension. In a landmark decision, the government also decided to  extend all pensionary benefits to all its employees  retiring on or after April 1, 2012  at the completion of 25 years of service, instead of the present 33  years.

LIC to revise pension in four weeks : Rajasthan HC.

Rajasthan High Court today[02/11/11} granted four weeks time to LIC to comply with its earlier order directing the company to implement a November 2001 board decision to revise pension and dearness allowance of its retired employees.

Karnataka employees will get 12.5% Interim Relief

Update on 04.11.2011 : Government is considering to hike the I.R to 15% and date of effect from 01.04.2011
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Employees of the Karnataka Government had something to cheer about on Kannada Rajyotsava day as Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday announced a 12.5 per cent hike in their basic salary as interim relief under the Sixth Pay Commission.

Coming into effect from November 1, the revision will benefit employees of local bodies, grant-in-aid educational institutions and non-teaching staff of universities and pensioners too, but will cost the State exchequer by an extra Rs 50 crore per month. Similar interim relief will also be given to pensioners and family pensioners.

Madhya Pradesh to implement Agrawal Commission's recommendations

Bhopal, Nov 1 (PTI)In a bonanza to the State Government's employees on the occasion of its 56th Foundation Day, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister today announced implementing Agrawal Commission's recommendations aimed at removing pay disparities in their salary structure following implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission report.