Friday, October 28, 2016
LANDMARK JUDGMENT BY SUPREME COURT FOR PAYMENT OF “EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK” TO THE DAILY WAGE EMPLOYEES, ADHOC APPOINTEES, EMPLOYEES APPOINTED ON CASUAL BASIS, CONTRACTUAL EMPLOYEES AND THE LIKE.
The
Hon’ble Supreme Court in its Historical 102 pages Judgment in Civil Appeal No.
2013 of 2013 dated 26.10.2016 has directed that Temporary Employees, Adhoc
Appointees, employees appointed on Casual basis, contractual employees and the
like, if the concerned employees are rendering similar duties and
responsibilities as were being discharged by regular employees holding the
same/corresponding posts are entitled “for equal pay for equal work” such
employees are entitled for draw wages at the minimum of the payscale extended
to regular employees holding the same posts. We will be representing to the
Govt. To implement this Judgment and issue a common order in this regard. Full
judgement is reproduced below:
DPC : PS Gr. B for the year 2016-17 ---- updates
Yesterday, Directorate has called for the vacancy position of PS Gr. B posts from all Circles. Many circles yet not responded to the Directorate.
All Circle Secretaries are directed to confirm the submission of correct vacancy position by their circles to Directorate for convening of DPC for promotion to the cadre of PS Gr. B for the year 2016-17.
Data Base of IPs/ASPs of Tamil Nadu Circle
Tamil Nadu circle has prepared data base of all IPs and ASPs of their circle. Shri Babu G. Circle Secretary of Tamil Nadu Circle has requested his all members to verify their particulars and in case of any omission/updation, member should report the same to Shri K. Shivashankar on 9894214292.
To view data base of Tamil Nadu Circle, please CLICK HERE.
All Circle Secretaries are directed to prepare their circles data base for the information to all concerned and office record purpose.
Media Report : "Committee on allowance ready with report"
Government
employees might have an exciting new year as the Committee on Allowances under
the chairmanship Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa is ready with its reports.
Media
reports said that the committee is likely to submit the reports on revised
allowance to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley very soon.
Quoting
sources in the Finance Ministry, media reports said that the committee is
waiting to be called by Jaitley for submission of its reports.
Cabinet Announces 2% DA for Central Government Employees
The
Union government on Thursday approved 2 per cent dearness allowance and relief
benefiting about 50.68 lakh employees and 54.24 lakh pensioners.
The
decision to provide 2 per cent DA on basic pay was taken by the Cabinet and
will be effective from July 1, 2016.
The
2 per cent DA will result in annual burden of Rs. 5,622.10 crore, though for
period of eight months (July-February in 2016-17), it would be Rs. 3,748.06
crore.
The
central government had increased DA by 6 per cent to 125 per cent in March 2015.
DA was later merged with the basic pay following the implementation of the 7th
Pay Commission.
“The
Union Cabinet has given its approval to release an instalment of DA to Central
Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to Pensioners from July 1, 2016
representing an increase of 2 per cent of the revised Basic Pay/Pension, to
compensate for price rise,” a press statement said.
According
to the statement, the increase is in accordance with the accepted formula,
which is based on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission.
The
combined impact on the exchequer on account of both Dearness Allowance and
Dearness Relief would be Rs. 5,622.10 crore per annum and in the Financial Year
2016-17 for the period of 8 months (i.e. from July 2016 to February 2017), it
would be Rs. 3,748.06 crore.
Women employees can now file harassment complaints online:Govt
Press
Trust of India | New Delhi October 26, 2016
The
women employees of the Central government will soon be able to file sexual
harassment complaints online.
The
decision was taken at a meeting called by Women and Child Development (WCD)
Minister Maneka Gandhi today after she received complaints from aggrieved women
employees from various ministries.
Officials
from Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Ministry of Home Affairs
(MHA), Railway Ministry, Sports Ministry and Department of Financial Services
were present at the meeting.
The
e-platform for posting complaints will be hosted on the Women and Child
Development ministry's website, a senior official said, adding the complaints
will then be taken up with the respective ministries/departments.
An
inter-ministerial committee headed by a senior WCD official will be constituted
to review the status of the complaints. The forum will also ensure that all
Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) heads are imparted training on how to
resolve such complaints, he said.
It
has also been decided that the DoPT will issue instructions to ensure that
training programmes for all services include a module on Sexual Harassment of
Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 to
sensitise the government staff.
Additionally,
the WCD ministry will issue guidelines for dealing with sexual harassment
complaints. These will include a monthly as well as an annual report, to be
prepared by the Internal Complaints Committee of each ministry, on the status
of complaints received.
The
cadre controlling authority of a victim will be required to monitor her
progress for 5 years, in order to ensure that she is not further tormented for
complaining against a colleague, the official said.
A
similar exercise for the private sector is also on the anvil, he added.
The
move comes after several women employees wrote to the WCD ministry about delay
in getting their complaints about sexual harassment resolved.
Source
: http://www.business-standard.com
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Inauguration of Excess Baggage Assistance counter at Tiruchirappalli Airport
Excess
Baggage Assistance counter was opened at Tiruchirappalli Airport (Tamil Nadu) on
20.10.2016 by Shri J. T. Venkateshwarlu,
Postmaster General (BD & Mails), O/o the Chief PMG,Chennai in the
presence of Shri G. Natarajan, Director Postal Services, Central Region,
Tiruchirappalli. Shri K. Gunasekaran, Director, Tiruchirappalli International
Airport.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Commemorative Postage Stamp on 'National Unity Day' will be released on 31/10/2016
National
Unity Day celebrates the birthday of Patel because, during his term as Home Minister of India, he is credited for
the integration of over 550 independent princely states into India from
1947-49 by Independence Act (1947). He is known as the “Bismarck of
India”.
This
year Department of Posts has decided to release Commemorative Postage Stamp on 'National Unity Day' on 31/10/2016.
All
members and track in viewers are once again requested to open one Philately Deposit
Account (PDA) in any Head Post Office and get the philately stamps and
stationary items at door step.
Source : Wikepedia
Migrating residuary data left out during the previous migration
From: Deputy
Director (CEPT)
Sent: 14
September 2016 10:01
To: CPMG
Assam Circle; CPMG Andhra Pradesh Circle; CPMG Bihar Circle; CPMG Chattisgarh
Circle; CPMG Delhi Circle; CPMG Gujrat Circle; CPMG Himachal Pradesh Circle;
CPMG Haryana Circle; CPMG Jharkhand Circle; CPMG Jammu & Kashmir Circle;
CPMG Karnataka Circle; CPMG Kerala Circle; CPMG Maharashtra Circle; CPMG Madhya
Pradesh Circle; CPMG North East Circle; CPMG Orissa Circle; CPMG Punjab Circle;
CPMG Rajasthan Circle; CPMG Tamilnadu Circle; CPMG Uttar Pradesh Circle; CPMG
Uttarakhand Circle; CPMG West Bengal Circle
Cc: Director
(CBS); DDG (Financial Services); Saurabh Gupta; Gopinath S
Subject : Migrating residuary data left out during the previous migration - Important
communication - Time bound - Regarding::
Respected
Sir(s) / Madam (s),
This
is regarding re-migration of residuary (left out) data during the earlier
migration. Circles have come up with a request that few quantum of data
pertaining to various schemes were left out due to inaccurate digitization and
resulting in non-migration of certain accounts (data) during the previous
migration of offices.
Hence,
it is proposed to identify the quantum of scheme-wise data with SOL ID in the
following template and send us the details in the attached excel sheet for
further planning and scheduling migrations.
Yours
Sincerely,
(V
M Sakthivelu)
Deputy
Director CEPT
+919444227090
Inadequate implementation of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Women and Child Development
Government of India
Ministry of Women and Child Development
26-October-2016 18:15 IST
Smt.
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi expresses concern at the inadequate implementation of
Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal)
Act, 2013.
WCD Ministry to set up Inter-Ministerial Committee and an e-platform for effective redressal of complaints of sexual harassment at workplace
The
Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi held a
review meeting on implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace
(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 in New Delhi today. Officials
from the WCD Ministry, DoPT, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Ministry
of Home Affairs, Ministry of Railways and Department of Financial Services were
present. Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi expressed her concern that the complaints of
sexual harassment are not being handled in a timely as well as sensitive
manner. She also expressed her concern that harassment often continues over a period
of time and it is only after it becomes unbearable that a woman comes out to
complain. In such situations, it is the duty of Internal Complaints Committee
to decide on the complaint in the shortest possible time. The Minister also
pointed out that the transfer of the aggressor can never be a solution to such
a complaint and there should be harsher punishments when the complaint is found
to be true.
2.
After extensive deliberations, the following decisions were taken:
(i)
The Ministry of WCD will set up an inter-ministerial committee headed by a
senior official of the WCD Ministry. This committee will review the progress of
disposal of complaints of sexual harassment, get a standardized training module
prepared in collaboration with ISTM, ensure that heads of Internal Complaints
Committee of all ministries/departments are given training on how to handle the
complaints.
(ii)
The ministry will be establishing a secure electronic platform for any woman
employee of the government to file a complaint under the Act directly to the
Ministry of WCD. These complaints will be then taken up with the respective
ministries/ departments. This will enable a monitorable and transparent system
of grievance redressal under the Act.
(iii)
All ministries/ departments will furnish a monthly report to WCD ministry on
the number of complaints received, disposed, pending and action taken etc.
(iv)
All ministries/ departments and attached offices will furnish the annual
statistics of complaints received and disposed under the Act in their Annual
Reports. It was also decided that the inter ministerial committee will create a
panel of resource persons from which ICCs can take the external members. In
another important decision taken at the meeting today, all the training programmes
of all services will have a module on the Act and DoPT will issue necessary
instructions for this.
(v)
It was also decided that the respective cadre controlling authority will keep
every complainant under observation for a period of five years so that she is
not subjected to any further administrative harassment as a result of her
having complained against a male superior.
(vi)
It was agreed that the Act, the rights of a woman official and the
responsibility of the ICC must be given adequate publicity through different
methods including the websites of the ministries/ departments/ attached
offices.
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