NFPE, PALAKKAD CONVEYS HEARTY NEW YEAR WISHES TO ALL ITS MEMBERS AND POSTAL EMPLOYEES.
AIPEU GROUP C *** AIPEU POSTMEN & MTS *** AIPEU-GDS *** LOCAL CO ORDINATING COMMITTEE OF POSTAL & RMS UNIONS *** PALAKKAD
Thursday, December 31, 2015
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016
NFPE, PALAKKAD CONVEYS HEARTY NEW YEAR WISHES TO ALL ITS MEMBERS AND POSTAL EMPLOYEES.
HAPPY RETIRED LIFE DEAR COMRADE
RETIREMENT FUNCTION OF COM P K UNNIKRISHNAN, VICE PRESIDENT, NFPE, PALAKKAD & SPM, MANNUR
NFPE PALAKKAD Commemorate the valuable contributions made by comrade in trade union movements.
NFPE, PALAKKAD conveys him a very happy and prosperous retired life.
CONFEDERATION DHARNA ON 30.12.2015 IN FRONT OF SSP OFFICE PALAKKAD
DHARNA AS PER THE CALL OF NJCA BY CONFEDERATION IN FRONT OF SSP OFFICE, PALAKKAD
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
National Joint Council of Action delcared indefinite strike from March 2016
The
National Joint Council of Action, consisting of All Central Government
Employee's Federations (Railways, Defense and Confederation),decided to organize indefinite strike from March 2016 in connection with report of 7th CPC. Main demands are:
Full details, of strike & action by NJCA, are uploaded in the following two links:
Letter to Cabinet Secretary from NJCA
Click Here to See the Charter of Demands.
1) Re compute the Minimum wages
2) Enhance the Rate of increment
3) Treat GDS as Civil Servant and grant them all pay, allowances, and benefits granted to regular employees on Pro - rata basis.
4) Scrap National Pension System
5) Fill up all vacant posts in central government.
6)
MACP to be treated as financial up-gradation, without any grading
stipulation; to be provided on the basis of the promotional cadre
hierarchy of the concerned department; increase the number of MACP to
five on completion of 8, 15,21,26 and 30th years of service. Reject the
Efficiency Bar stipulation made by 7th CPC. Personnel promoted on the
basis of Examination should be treated as fresh entrants to the cadre.
7) Wage of Central Government Employees be revised in every 5 years
8) Retain the abolished advances and allowances.
Etc, etc, etc.....................................
Here, in this context, please remember the words of our Great leader Com. K G Bose.
“ Organise if you want real living wages,
Organise if you want to have your working hours reduced,
Organize if you desire better treatment from your superior
officers,
Organize if you want that the authorities should consult
and consider your opinion on all administrative measures affecting you”
Letter to Cabinet Secretary from NJCA
Click Here to See the Charter of Demands.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
EMAIL From NFPE, Palakkad to NFPE CHQ
An email from our NFPE, Palakkad to CHQ to declare the Saturday as holiday is refurnished below
Presently, almost all central
govt departments are having five day week
with 7 hours work per day, except
in postal department where it is still six days a week and eight hours a day. The logic behind putting postal
employees into this kind of arduous working hours might be based on the nature
of indispensability of a proper communication system and affordable small
savings financial services . In the present day market enthused options and
choices , it is worth reviewing the
working hours prevalent in postal operative offices.
1. With the heavy work and new projects
implementations, the employees in postal operative offices are forced to sit late at offices beyond
already lengthy stipulated office hours., This
in effect , reduces the time to be spent with their dear and near
thereby affecting their
smooth family environment.
2. Each employee has to find time
for many family and social obligations such as paying utility bills, availing
govt services as a citizen ,social functions etc. The lengthy daily schedule
makes a postal employee either insincere towards his work by finding time for
the aforesaid compulsions out of duty hours, or apathetic to the general aspects
of duty bound citizenry. It is quite doubtful whether even the successive pay
commissions have studied this aspect
with due consideration and in the right perspective.
3. Setting an optimum working
hours in a department is essential for the targeted productivity and profitability.
4. Unfortunately the reduced
working hours for the postal department has never suggested by our
administrative offices sometimes for the reason that already the officials there enjoy five day
week .
5. Recently the government has declared the 2nd
and 4th Saturdays of every month as public holiday for banks in
India accepting the long pending demand from the workers.
In view of the above aspects, we
would like to put forward the demand of declaring 2nd and 4th
Saturdays as closed holidays for all postal operative offices. Moreover, Considering
the lengthy eight hours daily work, the no. of casual leaves to be
enhanced from the present, trivial eight
in numbers to twelve, restoring the
status quo ante before 5th pay commission implementation.
Divisional
Secretary
AIPEU Gr. C,
NFPE, Palakkad
Kerala.
Friday, November 27, 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
NFPTE - NFPE formation day 24TH November
LET US REMEMBER AND SALUTE MARTYRS OF OUR GREAT MOVEMENT ! .
LET US TAKE PLEDGE ON THIS HISTORIC OCCASSION
TO PLAY OUR DUE ROLE TO COMPLETE THE TASK UNFINISHED !
It was 61 years back on 24th November 1954 that the united organisation of National Federation of Posts and Telegraphs Employees (NFPTE) was born. All the existing unions/associations in the Posts and Telegraphs including Union of P and T Workers (UPTW) merged for bringing the new organisation. It was as per an agreement with the Government that this unification was brought. The then Communications Minster, Shri Jagjivan Ram, also took a pivotal role in this realignment scheme.
NFPTE was one of the foremost unions not only in Central Services, but in the entire government employees for having taken a correct trade union line, thus building a mighty organisation. Under the able leadership of Comrade Bhupendra Nath Ghosh (B.N.Ghosh), the first Secretary General, NFPTE became the leading light of Posts and Telegraph Employees.
NFPTE took initiative in the formation of the Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers, which was formed in 1956. Along with the AIRF and AIDEF, the Confederation led the historic five days strike in July 1960, despite promulgation of Essential Service Maintenance Ordinance and the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru terming the strike as a Civil Rebellion. The strike was smashed by the brutal force of the police, judiciary and the administration, but that strike still stands as one of the greatest struggle, Independence India has ever seen.
It was not much different in the One Day Token Strike on 19th September 1968 on the demands of Need Based Minimum Wage etc. P and T employees were in the forefront under the leadership of NFPTE and naturally the maximum victimisation fell on them. The victimisation including suspension, jail term, termination etc. continued for a long time. Many leaders were under suspension for about three years and on reinstatement they were transferred out of their Divisions. Such was the case of many leaders and even ordinary workers.
NFPTE took the lead in organising many struggles for settlement of the demands of the workers. Coms. B.N.Ghosh, O.P.Gupta, K.G.Bose, N.J.Iyer, K.Adinarayana and many other leaders led the movement.
NFPTE was bifurcated in to NFPE and NFTE after the Department of Posts and Telegraphs was bifurcated in to Department of Posts and Department of Telecommunications, in 1985.
LONG LIVE NFPE ! LET US PREPARE FOR SUCH SACRIFICIES !
LET US CONTINUE THE STRUGGLES ! LET US ACHIEVE THE GOAL !
Thursday, November 19, 2015
7TH PAY COMMISSION REPORT SUBMITTED TO GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ON 19.11.2015
MOST DISAPPOINTING AND RETROGRADE RECOMMENDATIONS
WORST RECOMMENDATIONS EVER MADE BY ANY PREVIOUS PAY COMMISSION |
ONLY 14.29% INCREASE IN PAY AFTER 10 YEARS
(EQUAL TO TWO DA INSTALLMENTS)!!!
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50 LAKHS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND DEFENCE PERSONNEL CHEATED & DECEIVED
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HOLD PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
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NJCA LEADERS MEETING AT DELHI ON 20.11.2015 AT 11 AM, WILL DECIDE THE FUTURE COURSE OF ACTION
IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS
1. DATD OF EFFECT – 01.01.2016
JCM Staff Side demand – 01.01.2014 - Rejected
2. 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.
3. FITMENT FORMULA – 2.57 TIMES
JCM (SS) demand – multiplication factor 3.7 (26000/70000)
4. FIXATION ON PROMOTION – NO CHANGE – ONLY ONE INCREMENT IN THE OLD SCALE
JCM (SS) demand – Minimum two increments fixation.
5. ANNUAL INCREMENT – 3% NO CHANGE
JCM (SS) demand – 5%
6. MODIFIED ASSURED CAREER PROGRESSION – NO CHANGE – 10, 20, 30
Conditions made more stringent. Bench march “Very Good” required instead of “good”. No Examination for MACP proposed. Hierarchial promotion restored.
JCM (SS) demand: Five promotion – 8,7,6,5,4 (30 years)
7. 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.
8. MAXIMUM PAY INCREASE – 14.29%
JCM (SS) demand – Minimum 40% increase for all employees.
9. COMPARISON BETWEEN MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM PAY – 1:11.4 (18000 : 205400)
Demand of the JCM (SS) – 1:8
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. HRA REDUCED TO 26%, 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%.
13. DRIVERS – HIGHER PAY SCALE REJECTED
14. DA FORMULA – NO CHANGE
15. HBA – NO CHANGE – CEILING RAISED TO 25 LAKHS
16. CASUAL LEAVE – NO INCREASE
17. CHILD Care Leave
1st 365 days – Full pay (100%)
Next 365 days – 80% Pay only.
18. MATERNITY LEAVE – NO CHANGE -
19. LEAVE ENCASHMENT AT THE TIME OF RETIREMENT – NO INCREASE MAXIMUM 300 DAYS ONLY
20. MEDICAL
Medical Insurance Scheme for serving and retired employees recommended.
21. TRANSPORT ALLOWANCE - NO HIKE - ONLY 125% MERGER
Pay Level
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Higher Transport Allowance cities (A, AI)
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Other places
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9 and above
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7200 + DA
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3600 + DA
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3 to 8
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3600 + DA
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1800 + DA
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1 and 2
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1350 + DA
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900 + DA
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22. LEAVE TRAVEL CONCESSION (LTC) – NO CHANGE
One time LTC to Foreign Country during the service rejected. Splitting of Home Town LTC for employees Posted in North East, Laddakh, Andaman & Nicobars and Lakshdweep allowed.
23. ACCOUNTS STAFF BELONGING TO UNORGANIZED ACCOUNTS – PARITY WITH ORGANISED ACCOUNTS REJECTED.
24. PERIODICAL REVIEW OF WAGES (NOT TEN YEARS) RECOMMENDED. NO PAY COMMISSION REQUIRED
25. PERFORMANCE RELATED PAY SHOULD BE INTRODUCED IN GOVERNMENT SERVICES AND ALL BONUS PAYMENT SHOULD BE LINKED TO PRODUCTIVITY.
JCM (SS) demand – No Performance related Pay. Productivity Linked Bonus for all.
26. COMPULSORY RETIREMENT AND EFFICIENCY BAR REINTRODUCED
Failure to get required bench MarK for promotion within the first 20 years of service will result in stoppage of increment. Such employees who have out lived their ability, their services need not be continued and the continuance of such persons in the service should be discouraged.
27. PROMOTEE AND DIRECT RECRUITS – ENTRY LEVEL PAY ANOMALY IS REMOVED
JCM (SS) demand – the differential entry pay between new recruits and promoted employees should be done away with.
28. CADRE REVIEW TO BE COMPLETED IN A TIME BOUND MANNER.
Commission recommended to hasten the process of cadre review and reduced the time taken in inter-ministerial consultations.
29. NEW PENSION SCHEME – WILL CONTINUE
30. CEA & HOSTEL SUBSIDY
Rate
CEA per month 2250 - 25% increase when DA crosses
Hostel subsidy 6750 – 50& increase when DA crosses
31. GROUP INSURANCE SCHEME
Level Monthly Contribution Insurance Amount
1 to 5 1500 15 Lakhs
6 to 9 2500 25 lakhs
10 and above 5000 50 lakhs
PENSIONARY BENEFITS
32. PENSIONERS – PARITY – LONG STANDING DEMAND OF THE PENSIONERS ACCEPTED
Commission recommends a revised Pension Formulation for Civil employees and Defence Personnel who have retired before 01.01.2016. (expected date of implementation of seventh CPC recommendations). This formulation will bring about complete parity of past pensioners with current retirees.
33. PENSIONERS – MINIMUM PENSION RS. 9000/-
(50% of the minimum pay recommended by the 7th CPC)
34. PENSIONERS – GRATUITY CEILING RAISED TO 20 LAKHS
35. PENSIONERS – FIXED MEDICAL ALLOWANCE (FMA) – NO CHANGE (RS. 500/-
36. CGHS FACILITIES TO ALL POSTAL PENSIONERS RECOMMENDED
33 Postal dispensaries should be merged with CGHS
37. GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS (GDS) OF THE POSTAL DEPARTMENT DEMAND FOR CIVIL SERVANTS STATUS REJECTED
Recommendation: - The committee carefully considered the demand for treating the Gramin Dak Sevaks as civil servants at par with other regular employees for all purposes, and noted the following:
(a) GDS are Extra-Departmental Agents recruited by Department of Posts to serve in rural areas.
(b) As per the Recruitment Rules the minimum educational qualification for recruitment to this post is class X.
(c) GDS are required to be on duty only for 4 to 5 hours a day under the terms and conditions of their service.
(d) The GDS are remunerated with Time Related continuity Allowance (TRCA) on the pattern of pay scales for regular Government employees plus DA on pro-rata basis.
(e) A GDS must have other means of income independent of his remuneration as a GDS to sustain himself and his family.
Government of India has so far held that GDS is outside the Civil Service of the Union and shall not claim to be at par with the Central Government Employees. The Supreme Court Judgment also states that GDS are only holder of Civil posts but not civilian employees. The Commission endorses this view and therefore has no recommendation with regard to GDS.
(M. Krishnan)
Secretary General
Confederation
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