Tribune News Service, Bathinda, March 15
The protesters said irked with being left out by the Pay Commission, the
Class IV government employees of all states have come together to
constitute the All-India Government Employees Confederation and during
the fifth meeting held by the confederation in Varanasi recently, the
members expressed displeasure over the development and announced that a
nationwide protest will be held across the country on March 18.
Addressing the protesters, general secretary of the union Gurmel Singh
said big corporate houses were now running the Central Government and it
was under the pressure of these business houses that the Class IV
employees were left out of the Pay Commission recommendations this time
around and the revision in pay scale had been done only for employees
starting scale III.
The employees said the Class IV employees were now worried about cuts in
dearness allowance, retirement pension, annual increment and
promotions.
They said soon the Class IV Government Employees Union, Punjab, would
chalk out a plan for protests to be held in the future and agitations
would be launched in cooperation with members of the Contractual
Employees Action Committee and would continue till their demands were
met.
District president of the union Manjit Singh said in the recommendations
of the Seventh Pay Commission, a proposal had been made to replace the
Class IV employees with recruitment of contractual employees, who also
know how to drive apart from doing other office tasks.
He said this was a clear indication that the Centre was now planning to scrap the post of Class IV employees.
Source : http://www.tribuneindia.com
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