PATNA: The state government on Thursday held talks with trade union leaders regarding implementation of new payscales in accordance with recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.
Sharing the meeting details, principal secretary finance, Navin Kumar said that the issue of merger of three payscales starting with Rs 5,000, 5,500 and 6,500 was discussed threadbare and employees’ leaders were asked to suggest ways for deciding the seniority of employees at supervisory level in case their demand of merging the three scales was agreed upon.
“The leaders could not come up with a solution,” he said.
The second issue was related to fixing the date from which benefits should be given. While the state government has decided to extend this benefit effective from April 1, 2007, the employees leaders pressed for the January 1, 2006 date for calculating this benefit. “I will put this demand before the state government very soon,” the principal secretary, finance said.
He also defended the government’s stand of setting up a committee for fixing the payscale of employees, claiming that every post had a different scale and the government wanted to give the benefits accordingly. “I clarified this position before the employees’ leaders,” Kumar said and added that any misconception about this committee was baseless and it had nothing to do with any delaying tactics as claimed by some.
He also said the government wants to settle this issue at the earliest and its intention is to finalise the new payscales in two months time.
The Bihar State Non-Gazetted Employees Federation (Gope group) termed Thursday’s meeting as a farce and claimed that the government’s attitude had shown that it was not interested in averting the strike called by the employees.
In the meantime, the state government has honoured its decision to extend the benefit of interim pay to its employees from December 2008 itself.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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