7th PAY COMMISSION NEWS - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS

LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF MEMORANDUM TO 7TH CPC EXTENDED As per the request of the JCM National Council Staff side, 7th Central Pay Commission has granted extension of time upto 15.07.2014 (15th July 2014) for submission of memorandum by individual organizations other than JCM staff side. The following is the revised time schedule (Last date). 1.  JCM National Council Staff side                           :    30.06.2014 2.  All other Federations/Unions/Associations  :    15.07.2014 JCM National Council Staff side will be submitting a common memorandum before 30.06.2014 on the common demands of the Central Government Employees. The Copy of the JCM Staff side memorandum will be placed in the website.

Unions and Associations are seriously involved in filling up the questionnaires prepared and sent by the 7th CPC   The sheer pace of the 7th CPC has impressed the central Government employees so much that their expectations have started to grow.   It has come to our knowledge that a number of unions and associations are seriously involved in filling up the questionnaires prepared and sent by the 7th CPC. It is also well known that on behalf of the National Council JCM Staff Side, the questionnaire had already been filled with the approval of all members and has been sent. ( Click here to view the reply )

National Council JCM Meeting about 7th CPC on 6th May 2014 As per the press release of Confederation, the staff side meeting of the National Council on 6th May, 2014.  The final version as formulated by the Staff Side will also be published on 7th May. 2014.

Date of Effect of 7th Central Pay Commission - Minister replied in Parliament In Parliament the Minister of Finance Shri.Chidambaram informed in a written reply to a question on 2nd Febrauary 2014 that the date of effect of the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission will be decided once the Report is submitted. And he also said, the composition of the 7th Central Pay Commission is broadly in line with the composition of the previous Central Pay Commissions.

7th Pay Commission is seeking the considered views of all stakeholders 7th Pay Commission is seeking for suggestions on various issues The 7th Pay Commission compiled a list of questions and sent it along with a circular to all the Ministries/Departments of Indian Government, inviting their suggestions. It has come to our knowledge that the circular was also sent to all the Central Government employee federations. This could be treated as a irrefutable proof of the fact that the 7th Pay Commission has already started its work! Although this is part of the usual procedure, it is a well known fact that Central Government employees treat certain questions as an indication of the mindset of the 7th Pay Commission. Let’s see the questions…

7th CPC Report - When is it going to be submitted? 7th Pay Commission Report and the Need for Timeliness Background of the 7th Pay Commission The 7th pay commission report - when is it going to be submitted? The announcement about the 7th pay commission report came out on September the 25th of 2013. This pay commission unlike the 6th pay commission was set up well in advance. This became possible due to significant efforts of various organisations, union lists and the finance commission report. Announcements say that the 7th pay commission will be implemented from 1.1.2016 and it will take approximately 18 months time for the report to be submitted. Recently, the 7th pay commission Chairman and the members gave out a public statement on 4.2.2014 and after that on 22.2.2014 the important 7th cpc terms and references were released. Now, the thought that floats on everyone’s mind is whether the 7th pay commission report will be submitted within the 18 months time period and will the...

Did you know how the 6th CPC’s Multiplication Factor of 1.86 was derived? The 6th Pay Commission had recommended a Multiplication Factor of 1.74, but the Central Government chose to change it to 1.86. One of the reasons for this modification was the intense pressure from various Federations of Central Government Employees. It has to be mentioned at this point that all the federations had presented demands to the Government to raise the minimum basic pay to Rs. 10,000. Exactly how did the Government arrive at 1.86? Here is an explanation how -

EXPECTED PAY STRUCTURE OF 7TH CPC – 90PAISA EXPECTED PAY STRUCTURE OF 7TH CPC EXPECTED 7TH CPC PAY SCALE :- 7th CPC Pay Scale is fast becoming the most mesmerizing phrase among Central Government employees these days.   Every Central Govt Employee is waiting to find out the changes in their pay scale that the 7th CPC would recommend to the pay structure. Sensing this eagerness, Bloggers have been regularly coming up with their own versions of what the pay structure could be. Do not take those writings seriously sand authentically.

5th CPC had ACP, 6th CPC had MACP; what does 7th CPC have? Assured Career Progression (ACP) is a boon to employees who have been suffering without promotions for years. Employees who got their jobs towards the end of 1960s had to face countless hurdles. One of them was the problem with promotions. There were many who didn't get any promotions for 30 years. Countless others retired without getting a single promotion in their careers.

Report of  7th CPC : It is not possible to indicate the exact time by which the Report of the 7th CPC will be submitted. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF  FINANCE RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-2057 ANSWERED ON-11.02.2014 Seventh Pay Commission

7th CPC requires Central Staff on Deputation Basis Vacancy Circular for 7th CPC office GOVERNMENT OF INDIA SEVENTH CENTRAL PAY COMMISSION NEW DELHI – 110001 Meena Agarwal Secretary Camp Office : Room No.169-B, North Block, New Delhi D.O No. 7CPC/2/Staff 27th March,  2014 Dear Shri Sarkar, Government of India has notified constitution of 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) vide Gazette notification No.1/1/2013-E.III(A) dated 28th February, 2014. You may also be kindly aware that Seventh CPC is mandated to submit its report to the Government within 18 months of its constitution. Further the Commission has been mandated to appoint such Advisors, Institutional Consultants and Experts as deemed necessary for any particular purpose.

New website for 7th CPC – Finance Ministry Ministry of Finance is launching a new website for 7th Central Pay Commission The official page is under the category of 'Employees Corner'. Just you scroll down the Finance Ministry Official Website and get it in the right side of bottom. The page now contents only one official order that 'Resolution on Terms of Reference of 7th CPC, which was published on 28.2.2014. Click here to view the webpage here...

Minutes of the 1st meeting of the Pay Commission Committee (PCC) held on 26.02.2014 Minutes of the 1st meeting of the Pay Commission Committee (PCC) held in the Conference Room with the representatives of the Federations and Associations at 11.00 hours on 26.02.2014. List of those present in the meeting is annexed.

Common main demands for inclusion in the Memorandum to 7th CPC as identified by BPS 1.Bring down the Ratio between maximum & Minimum of Salary to  9:1 ensuring complete equality by adopting uniformly common multiplication factor for revision of Pension: 4th CPC had determined the ratio between minimum & maximum of salary to be 10.7(Chapter 41 & 43) Vth cpc   maintained it to be 10.97 (Appendix ‘I’ summary of recommendations para19) in their recommendations which while implementation was raised to 1:11.76 Pay commissions up-to 5th CPC adopted a multiplication factor of 3.2 to 3.8 to arrive at the new scales compared to earlier scales but VI CPC adopted conversion factor of  1.86 to arrive at the minimum of lowest pay Band, where as it adopted  3.37 for arriving at the highest scale.

7th PAY COMMISSION - CENTRAL GOVT EMPLOYEES 7th CPC – STEP 1 The Prime Minister of India gave consent to the formation of 7th CPC on 25-09-2013. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram announced that the Prime Minister has formally given his consent to the formation of the 7th CPC. Announcement was also made that it would be implemented on 01.01.2016. Usually, not only employees, news agencies also would start guessing when the announcement would be declared. But this time, there were no such speculations. It has become clear that the Government’s decision and the date of announcement of 7th CPC are being kept secret. The sudden announcement had caught everybody by surprise. There is no doubt about the fact that it was a pleasant surprise to all Central Govt Employees...!

Postal Joint Council of Action - writes their discontent to Dopt on Terms of Reference of 7th CPC JCA Writes to DOP&T on Terms of Reference of the 7th CPC NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES 1st Floor, North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi – 110001 FEDERATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATIONS T-24, Atul Grove Road, New Delhi – 110001 Ref: JCA/Postal/2014 Dated – 06.03.2014 To The Secretary Department of Personnel & Training Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, North Block, New Delhi – 110001 Dear Sir, Sub: -  Terms of Reference of the 7th Central Pay Commission. We have gone through the Terms of Reference of 7th Central Pay Commission approved and notified by the Government on 28.02.2014. We find that the Terms of Reference finalized by the Government is at variance in many respects to the Draft Terms of Reference the Staff Side had submitted to you on 25.10.2013 after holding in-house discussion on 24.10.2013.

NFIR WANTS TO MAKE AMENDMENTS IN THE TERMS OF REFERENCE OF 7TH CPC NFIR ALSO DEMANDS TO THE SECRETARY OF DOPT TO ARRANGE A MEETING OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL COUNCIL (JCM) TO DISCUSS VARIOUS ISSUE OF INTERIM RELIEF, MERGER OF DA, PARITY IN PENSION, DEFINED BENEFITTED PENSION SCHEME, DATE OF EFFECT OF 7TH CPC AND PLB ect.,

AIRF raised strong objections against the Terms of Reference of 7th CPC Com. Shiva Gopal Mishra GS/AIRF, Member Staff Side raised strong objections against the ToR of 7th Pay Commission Tele :13382286 NATIONAL COUNCIL (Staff Side) Joint Consultative Machinery for Central Government Employees 13-C. Ferozshah Road, New DelhI-110001 No.NC-JCM/2014/VII CPC Dated: March 3, 2014 The Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, North Block, New Delhi Dear Sir, Sub: Terms of Reference of the 7 Central Pay Commission It is reported that, the Union Cabinet in its meeting, held on 28th February, 2014, has approved the Terms of Reference of the 7th Central Pay Commission. We have gone through the same. We find that the Terms of Reference finalized by the Government is at variance in many respects to the Draft Terms of Reference the Staff Side had submitted to you on 25.10.2013 after holding in-house discussion on 24.10.2013.

Confederation News on composition of 7th CPC - Seventh CPC constituted, but No DA Merger... FIRST IMPACT OF TWO DAY’S STRIKE NOTICE SEVENTH CPC CONSTITUTED. BUT NO DA MERGER NO INTERIM RELIEF. NO MENTION ABOUT GDS. NO CHANGE IN DATE OF EFFECT. NO DISCUSSION WITH STAFF SIDE. NO LABOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN PAY COMMISSION. CONFEDERATION NATIONAL SECRETARIAT DECIDED TO GO AHEAD WITH THE 48 HOURS STRIKE. NO COMPROMISE ON MAIN DEMANDS CONDUCT INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN AND MAKE THE STRIKE TOTAL. Prime Minister Approves Composition of 7th Central Pay Commission Under the Chairmanship of Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, Retired Judge of the Supreme Court and Retired Chairman, Armed Forces Tribunal The Finance Minister Shri P. Chidambaram has issued the following statement: “The Prime Minister has approved the composition of the 7th Central Pay Commission as follows: 1.         Shri Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur         ...

Prime Minister Approves Composition of 7th Central Pay Commission Under the Chairmanship of Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur Prime Minister Approves Composition of 7th Central Pay Commission Under the Chairmanship of Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, Retired Judge of the Supreme Court and Retired Chairman, Armed Forces Tribunal The Finance Minister Shri P. Chidambaram has issued the following statement: “The Prime Minister has approved the composition of the 7th Central Pay Commission as follows: