7th Pay Commission – Employees Cheated & Deceived – NJCA

7th Pay Commission – Employees Cheated & Deceived – Failure to get required bench mark for promotion within the first 20 years of service will result in stoppage of increment. In its report submitted to the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday, the Seventh Central Pay Commission has recommended an overall increase of 23.55 per cent in pay, allowances, and pension for government employees. “This will impact 47 lakh employees and 52 lakh pensioners. The total monetary impact on the central government would be Rs 1.02 lakh crore. Around Rs 74,000 crore would be the impact on the Union Budget and Rs 28,000 crore on the Railway Budget,” Mr Jaitley said at his residence after he received the report from Justice A.K. Mathur, Chairperson of the Commission. Mr Jaitley said the impact of the recommendations amounts to 0.6 per cent of GDP, adding that while the government would review the report soon, the State governments would take their own view on it. Justice Mathur said, “My only consideration was to make the service condition of all the service employees ameliorating so that they may perform their duty without worrying about their butter and bread.” However, the Central Government employees are not happy and they feel cheated. The NJCA, in the meeting held at Delhi on the 20th of November 2015, termed it as the worst recommendations ever made by any previous pay commission. The following is the briefing of the meeting. WORST RECOMMENDATIONS EVER MADE BY ANY PREVIOUS PAY COMMISSION ONLY 14.29% INCREASE IN PAY AFTER 10 YEARS (EQUAL TO TWO DA INSTALLMENTS)! 50 LAKHS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND DEFENCE PERSONNEL CHEATED & DECEIVED. HOLD PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS DATD OF EFFECT – 01.01.2016 JCM Staff Side demand – 01.01.2014 – Rejected MINIMUM PAY – 18000 JCM (SS) demand – 26000 – Rejected Dr. Aykroyd Formula of 15th Indian Labour Conference for calculation of Minimum wage distorted by 7th CPC to deny the eligible minimum pay. FITMENT FORMULA – 2.57 TIMES JCM (SS) demand – multiplication factor 3.7 (26000/7000) FIXATION ON PROMOTION – NO CHANGE – ONLY ONE INCREMENT IN THE OLD SCALE JCM (SS) demand – Minimum two increments fixation. ANNUAL INCREMENT – 3% NO CHANGE JCM (SS) demand – 5% MODIFIED ASSURED CAREER PROGRESSION – NO CHANGE – 10, 20, 30 Conditions made more stringent. Bench mark “Very Good” required instead of “good”. Examination for MACP proposed. Hierarchial promotion restored. JCM (SS) demand: Five promotion – 8,7,6,5,4 (30 years) PAY BAND, GRADE PAY SYSTEM ABOLISHED New Pension Structure called “Matrix based open ended pay structure” recommended. Total span of the scale 40 years. JCM (SS) demand: Abolish pay band, Grade Pay system and open ended pay scales should be introduced. MAXIMUM PAY INCREASE – 14.29% JCM (SS) demand – Minimum 40% increase for all employees. COMPARISON BETWEEN MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM PAY – 1:11.4 (18000 : 205400) Demand of the JCM (SS) – 1:8 NUMBER OF PAY SCALES – NOT REDUCED – NO DELAYERING JCM(SS) demand – pay scales with grade pay 1900, 2000, 4600, 8700 and the pay scale 75500-80000 to be abolished. ALLOWANCES – NO IMPROVEMENT Commission recommended abolition of 52 existing allowances such as Assisting Cashier Allowance, Cash Handling Allowance, Treasury Allowance, Handicapped Allowance, Risk Allowance, Savings Bank Allowance, Special compensatory (Hill Area) Allowance, Cycle Allowance, Family Planning Allowance etc. HRA REDUCED TO 24%, 16% AND 8% FOR X, Y AND Z CITIES JCM (SS) demand – Existing HRA of 30% (for X class cities with population 50 lakhs and above), 20% (for Y class cities with population of 5 lakhs to 50 lakhs) and 10% (for Z class cities with less than 5 lakhs population) may be increased to 60%, 40% and 20%. DRIVERS – HIGHER PAY SCALE REJECTED DA FORMULA – NO CHANGE HBA – NO CHANGE – CEILING RAISED TO 25 LAKHS CASUAL LEAVE – NO INCREASE CHILD Care Leave 1st 365 days – Full pay (100%) Next 365 days – 80% Pay only. MATERNITY LEAVE – N