The positive and negative aspects of pay commission report as approved by cabinet

POSITIVE THINGS:
1. Date of Effect has been accepted as 1.1.2006.
2. Rate of increment is raised to 3%.
3. Staff Side Demand for 3 Financial Up-gradations is accepted and a 3 ACP Scheme for provision of financial upgradations on completion of 10, 20 and 30 years of service for all Civilian Employees is announced. [For Postal Employees, after study of the full orders, we have to opt for the ACP Scheme by switching over from the TBOP/BCR Scheme].

NEGATIVE ASPECTS:
1. Arrears will not be paid in one lump-sum. Only 40% arrears will be paid in the current financial year and the balance 60% would be paid in the 2009-2010 financial year only.
2. Even the demand for 3.5% annual increment is not accepted.
3. The negative modification made in the ACP Scheme for denying financial upgradation beyond the next grade pay stage is accepted while granting one more financial up-gradation under modified 3 ACP Scheme.
4. Need Based Minimum Wage for a Group D worked out by the Staff Side under the 15th ILC norms for Rs.9700/- is not accepted. Even the 7400/- Minimum Wage under the 5th CPC's NNP Formula for the Group D is rejected. Instead only Rs.7000/- announced as the minimum wagesfor a Group C. This is total injustice.
5. The Government says the minimum gross salary will be more than 10,000 per month. But the fact is that only the Group C would get this 10,000 minimum including HRA and other allowances. In Public Sector like LIC the gross salary of a Group D is at present more than 9000/- and with the next wage agreement round the corner for them, the Group D in PSU would go upto more than 12000- . But our Group C would be drawing much less than the Group D of the PSU.
6. The glaring discrimination perpetrated by the Pay Commission by granting a minimum of 41% fixation benefit to a maximum of 180% for the higher officers and recommending only 12% to 38% fixation benefit for the Group C and D employees has not been removed. The major demand of Staff Side for granting a uniform fixation benefit at the rate of 41% by providing for a 2.625 times fixation benefit is rejected. Only a 1.86 times fixation benefit is accepted.
7. The acceptance of the recommendation for abolition of Group D by announcing that except the Peons in Ministerial Offices and the Porters of Railway Department, there will be no Group D in future is a big blow. The pay scale of Group D has not been revised. The 6th CPC recommendation that non matriculate Gr D would be placed at Rs 4740/- without Grade Pay and allowances including DA has been accepted by Government in an implied manner.
8. Unless it is clarified that in the Department of Posts, the promotion for GDS will continue to be made against the upgraded Group D instead of Group D as at present, the promotional avenues of three lakhs of GDS would be hit in a most adverse manner.
9. The change of Base year for DA from 1982 to 2001 would affect the quantum of DA payable to us. The move to introduce separate Consumer Price Index for Government employees is fraught with dangers for employers.