Different Pay Structure due to merger of Air India and Indian Airlines

Different Pay Structure due to merger of Air India and Indian Airlines

Shri Ajit Singh, the Minister of Civil Aviation informed Rajya Sabha today in a written reply that the employees are governed by their respective scales of pay, service regulations and certified/standing orders as per their erstwhile companies. 

The Minister further informed that the Government of India has appointed an independent Committee headed by Justice (Retd) D.M.Dharmadhikari to resolve the disparities to HR issues, including pay parity, working conditions, seniority etc. The Committee has submitted its report to the Ministry of Civil Aviation on 31.1.2012. Subsequently, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has constituted a three-member Committee consisting of officers from Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Civil Aviation and an Independent Expert to examine the recommendations of Justice Dharmadhikari Committee and formulate a time-line for its implementation. 

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Karnataka Pay Commission :Pay, allowances, retirement benefits

Karnataka state Pay Commission

After six years, the State government on Wednesday proposed to effect revision on salaries of its employees, based on the recommendations of the official pay committee constituted in June 2011.

As per the committee’s recommendation, the total hike in salaries is 22.5 pc, inclusive of 15 pc interim relief, which was announced in November, 2011. 

The hike is expected to cost the State government an additional expenditure of Rs 4,450 crore.

The revised pay scales, allowances and pensions which are proposed to come into effect from April 1, will have 76.75 pc DA merged with the basic pay. 

The 76.75 pc includes the pending total accumulated DA of around 69.5 pc from 2006 to December 2011 plus around 7.5 pc accumulated DA from January 2012 to June 2012. From June onwards, the 7.5 pc DA will continue as usual.  

Four slabs

The salaries have been divided into four slabs – for group ‘D’ employees, first division assistants, class I officers, and KAS and posts occupied by non-IAS officers. 

Group D workers (minimum pay scale) who were being paid Rs 4,800 in Bangalore city will now be paid around Rs 12,400 (9,600 basic + 25 pc HRA + Rs 300 CCA). 

The same worker in ‘B’ class cities/towns will get 16 pc HRA; those in ‘C‘ class cities/towns will get 10 pc HRA; and those in ‘D’ class cities/towns will get 7 pc HRA. They will not be entitled to CCA. KAS officers who occupy posts which could be occupied by KAS officers and non-IAS officers in cities who come under the maximum payscale slab were being paid a basic salary of Rs 39,900. 

As per the proposed revision, they will now get a basic salary of Rs 79,800 plus. If 25 pc HRA plus Rs 400 CCA is added, they will get a salary of Rs 1 lakh or more. There are around 12 lakh government employees including pensioners. 

The Karnataka State Government Employees’ Association president U D Narasimhaiah said that the pay revision was disappointing and that the Association would reject the proposal.

“The government has only effected 22.5 pc salary hike, while we had demanded a 40 pc hike. With the growing inflation, the plight of government employees is bad, and we have been met out injustice. The chief minister should set this right,” he said.

Proposed salary revision* Minimum pay (basic) as in 2006 – Rs 4,800; proposed pay – Rs 9,600 (Group ‘D’ employees)

* Minimum pay (basic) as in 2006 – Rs 7,275; proposed pay – Rs 14,550 (I Division Assistants)

* Maximum pay (basic) as in 2006 – Rs 28,275; proposed pay – Rs 56,550 (Class I officers)

* Max pay (basic) as in 2006 – Rs 39,900; proposed pay – Rs 79,800 (KAS and posts occupied by non-IAS officers)

Allowances

* House Rental Allowance, classification of cities, towns, other places reduced from six to four groups. Minimum rate HRA increased from 6 pc to 7 pc

* CCA increased from Rs 80 – Rs 300 to Rs 250 – Rs 400

* Medical allowance for group ‘C’ and ‘D’ employees increased from Rs 50 per month to Rs 100 per month

* Other allowances, special allowance and benefits increased.

Retirement benefits

* Minimum and maximum pension to be Rs 4,800 per month and Rs 39,900 per month respectively

* Minimum and maximum family pension to be Rs 4,800 per month and Rs 23,940 per month respectively

* Pension/family pension of past retirees to be calculated by adding to basic pension/family pension as on April 1, 2012; DA at 76.75 pc and fitment benefit of 22.5 pc subject to a minimum of Rs 4,800 per month 

Source : Deccan Herald

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Karnataka Pay Commission Report submitted

A Pay Revision Committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of Mr.Subir Hari Singh, Development Commissioner and Additional Chief Secretary, a year ago to recommend revision of pay to Karnataka Government employees, as it was demanded by Karnataka State Government Employees to remove anomalies between the pay scales of the State and Central Government employees

However, the government has kept the report under wraps. The chief minister is likely to incorporate some of the committee’s recommendations in the 2012-13 budget scheduled to be presented on March 21.

The State secretariat was abuzz on Tuesday with the news of the report, which was submitted to Gowda on Monday. About six lakh State government employees are eager to know the Committee’s recommendations on the quantum of hike in basic salary, percentage of dearness allowance (DA) merger with basic salary, and hike in various allowances, including  house rent allowance (HRA) and city compensatory allowance (CCA).

Salaries of State employees were last revised in 2006. Presently, the minimum basic salary is Rs 4,800 and the maximum Rs 39,900. 

About 70 per cent of the basic salary is being given as DA. The HRA rate is between six per cent and 25 per cent, and the CCA between Rs 100 and Rs 300 (both depending on the place of work).

The employees’ associations have been demanding fixing of minimum basic at Rs 12,000 and the maximum at Rs 96,000; complete merger of DA with basic and a hike in the HRA on a par with that of the Central government employees.

But the government has already given an interim relief of 15 per cent with effect from November 1, 2011. The overall hike of about 40-50 per cent in basic salary is considered as satisfactory by employees.

The government had asked the five-member committee headed by Additional Chief Secretary Subir Hari Singh to recommend a new, “feasible” pay structure.

Given the State’s financial situation, official sources said the government can afford a 50 per cent hike in salary without upsetting the fiscal condition. For, the current fiscal is expected to end up with a revenue surplus of Rs 1,278 crore for the government.

The Committee is also said to have recommended introduction of five-day work a week. When contacted, Subir Hari Singh refused to divulge any information.

Main demands

* Fix Rs 12,000 as minimum basic salary and Rs 96,000 as maximum

* Merge 70 pc DA with basic, excluding 7.5 pc pending for the present calendar year

* Hike HRA, CCA and other allowances on a par with Central government employees

source:Deccan Herald

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Pay arrears to employees: Karra to Govt

Urging upon the state government to address the ‘genuine’ demands of state and other PSUs, former Finance Minister and PDP leader, Tariq Hameed Kara Sunday said the agreement reached upon earlier between the parties should be implemented in letter and spirit without any further delay.

He said the government had entered into an agreement with the representatives of the government employees on payment of their arrears, removing pay anomalies etc, which is yet to be implemented.

Kara said, “When on one hand, the government claims to have earned the largest ever plan size of sixty six thousand crore, it cannot and should not put the just and genuine demands of the employees on back burner which is likely to hamper the growth and developmental activities in the state.”

The government, Kara said, owes an explanation whether it has projected the demands of the employees before the Planning Commission in its recent meeting. “On one hand government says that it can’t resolve the issue unless central government steps in to bail out the state from its financial implications and rightly so but how can it forget projecting these demands before the central government” Kara said adding further that the government itself claimed that whatever projected before the planning commission, it earned that, then should it be deemed that it (government) simply forgot its employees. “if it is so, then it is criminal negligence on part of the state government” added Kara.

He said the state government must address the genuine demands of the employees to remove the discontent among the employees.

"Government should address the issues concerning the employees in a spirit of understanding and accommodation to avoid repetition of confrontation” Kara said adding further that it (government) cannot hope to serve the people if its entire administrative machinery is dissatisfied.

Terming the employees as the vehicles of change of the government, Kara said dissatisfied and dejected employees cannot ensure work culture and hassle free service to the people of the state.

Kara asked the Chief Minister to take personal interest in solving the demands of State employees so that confrontation between Government and employees could be avoided.
source:kashmirdispatch.com

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Panel set up to revise pay of State government staff-Karnataka

Five-member committee given nine months to submit report

The pay revision exercise will cover about

11 lakh employees

Salaries of State government staff were last revised in 2006

BANGALORE: There is some good news for State Government employees as the government has constituted a five-member Official Pay Committee on Wednesday for revising their pay scales.

The committee headed by senior bureaucrat and Bangalore Metropolitan Regional Development Authority Chairman Subir Hari Singh has been given nine months time for submitting its report to the government.

According to a notification issued on June 15, the committee comprises Principal Secretary to Finance L.V. Nagarajan, Principal Secretary to Public Works Department Subhash Chandra Kuntia and Secretary to Finance Department Anil Kumar Jha as members, while retired bureaucrat H. Shashidhar has been appointed its secretary.

Announcing the formation of such a committee at a press conference in Bangalore on Thursday, Karnataka State Government Employees’ Association president L. Bhyrappa and general secretary Range Gowda thanked the government for heeding their demand for constitution of such a panel. But they wanted the committee to complete its task within three to four months itself.

The association had been demanding a revision in pay scales of State government employees in the wake of the Centre revising the salaries of its staff by implementing the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.

Following this, Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa had announced in this year’s State budget that an officials’ committee would be formed to look into the demand for pay revision.

Read more details-http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/17/stories/2011061764440600.htm

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State employees seek 6th pay commission salary

 Nearly 15,000 government employees in Dakshina Kannada district and their counterparts across the state will be absent from their respective offices from 1.30 pm to 2.30 pm on Wednesday. They would instead be holding meetings in front of the offices of the deputy commissioners and tahshildars at the respective district and taluk headquarters with an 11-point charter of demands for the government to consider on the eve of state budget. 

The state-wide meetings would not have a bearing for the general public. Also there would be no stoppage of services delivery to the people as the government employees have chosen their designated lunch hour time to hold the meetings. While the state government has already given them positive feelers about meeting some of their demands, the employees want to make sure that their voice is heard, especially since the state budget is to be presented later this month. 

H Sanjeeva, president of district unit of Karnataka State Government Employees Association told reporters on Monday that the main demand raised by the parent body of the association with the government is to ensure that the state government employees receive their salaries on par with central government employees. The central government employees are already drawing salaries as recommended by the sixth pay commission, Sanjeeva noted. 

The state government employees, he said, are currently getting salaries as mentioned in the fifth pay commission that is being paid to them from April 1, 2006. The neighboring states of TN, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh have implemented and even Kerala from April 1 would implement the 6th pay commission recommendations for their employees, he said, adding Karnataka would be last state to do so, as and when the government decides to do so for its employees. 

The other major discrimination, he said is with regard to house rent allowance (HRA). While central government employees receive 20 per cent of their basic as HRA, state government employees get 10 per cent. Even this was raised by one per cent from November last, he said, adding that the employees are not getting the benefits of a B2 category city bestowed on Mangalore as per 2000 census, which entitles them to higher HRA and other emoluments.

source:The Times of India 

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