CONFEDERATION OF CENTRALGOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS
Manihsinath Bhawan,A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,New Delhi. 110 027.
Website: confederationhq. Blogspot.com,E mail:confederation06@yahoo.co.in.
Dated: 22nd November, 2012
D/14/2012(2)(PP)
Dear Sir,
We write this to request you to kindly intervene and take up the
issues/demands and grievances of the Government employees with the
Government.
As you are aware, the Government had been systematically and
continuously shedding its functions since 1991. This policy decision
has resulted in outsourcing many of the sovereign functions of the
Government. Presently as much as one third of the manpower employed by
the Government is casual/contingent/daily rated or contract workers
who are given pittance of emoluments. Half of the workforce of the
Postal Department, (which employs more than three lakhs of employees,)
is Grameen Dak Sewaks. They are not even treated as Government
employees. For decades they work on hourly rate salary system. Both
the GDS and the other casual workers are employed for carrying out
permanent and perennial nature of work. The Government thus violates
the laws of the land with impunity. No scheme is in vogue today for
their regularisation. The Govt. refuses to induct them as regular
employees even after decades of service to their credit.
The Government employees were entitled for a statutory defined benefit
pension scheme. The Government has denied it to those whoa re
recruited after 1.1.2004. The post 2004 entrants are brought within the
purview of the New Contributory Pension scheme, thereby making their
pension entitlement subject to the market vagaries. The reason
adduced by the Government for effecting the switch over from the
defined benefit scheme to the defined contributory scheme was the
increasing financial burden on account of the pension liability. The
Committee set up by the Govt. to go into the matter itself has opined
that the new contributory scheme would only make the financial burden
to increase further.
The Union Cabinet has now decided to allow FDI in Pension fund
operations. This will pave way for the foreign monopoly houses to
garner the savings of Indian people and maximise their profit. The real
intent of brining in the PFRDA Bill has become unambiguously clear from
the decision of the Union cabinet to allow FDI in pension fund
management.
The negotiating machinery which was set up by the Government in 1964
to address the issues and grievances of the Civil servants called the
JCM in the wake of the 1960- strike has been made non functional for the
Govt. do not convene its council meetings, especially at the
Departmental levels. Even when it meets occasionally, the art of
procrastination prevails. The machinery had a dispute settlement
mechanism whereby the issues on which the Government could not agree
could be referred to the Board of Arbitration, whose decision was to be
final and accepted by both the parties. There are presently
seventeen awards given in favour of the employees. The Govt. has
decided to move resolution in the Parliament to reject every one of
them. Two such awards are coming up for rejection in this session of
the Parliament.
There are very many other issues, which are of extreme concern to the
employees' viz. the never abating rise in prices of essential
commodities, the restoration of compassionate appointments; the overdue
wage revision; the untenable vindictive actions against the union
functionaries especially in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department
etc. Having failed to reach any reasonable settlement through dialogue
the Confederation in its last National Council meeting was constrained
to take decision for a one day token strike on 12th
December, 2012 in pursuance of the 15 point charter of demands. We
send herewith a copy of the Explanatory Note on these demands.
We once again request you to kindly intervene and persuade the Government to settle these issues.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General
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