Regarding National Wage policy- COC

Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers Karnataka State

Comrade

           The COC Karnataka meeting held on 30/4/14 held at ITEF Bangalore has deliberated on National wage policy and Central Government Employees wages, please go through this article.

Comradely yours

(P.S.Prasad)

General Secretary

National wage policy and Central Government Employees wages.

What is national wage policy?
Main objectives of national wage policy in India are discussed below:
One of the objectives of economic planning is the raising of the standard of living of the people. This means that the benefits of planned economic development should be distributed among the different sections of the society.
Therefore, in achieving a socialistic pattern of society, the needs for proper rewards to the working class of the countryman never is over emphasised.
A national wage policy, thus aims at establishing wages at the highest possible level, which the economic conditions of the country permit and ensuring that the wage earner gets a fair share of the increased prosperity of the country as a whole resulting from the economic development.
The term “wage policy” here refers to legislation or government action calculated to affect the level or structure of wages or both, for the purpose of attaining specific objectives of social and economic policy.
1. To eliminate malpractices in the payment of wages.
2. To set minimum wages for workers, whose bargaining position is weak due to the fact that they are either un-organised or inefficiently organised. In other words, to reduce wage differential between the organised and unorganised sectors.
3. To rationalise inter-occupational, inter-industrial and inter-regional wage differentials in such a way that disparities are reduced in a phased manner.
4. To ensure reduction of disparities of wages and salaries between the private sector and public sector in a phased manner.
5. To compensate workers for the raise in the cost of living in such a manner that in the process, the ratio of disparity between the highest paid and the lowest paid worker is reduced.
6. To provide for the promotion and growth of trade unions and collective bargaining.
7. To obtain for the workers a just share in the fruits of economic development.
8. To avoid following a policy of high wages to such an extent that it results in substitution of capital for labour thereby reducing employment.
9. To prevent high profitability units with better capacity to pay a level of wages far in excess of the prevailing level of wages in other sectors.
10.To permit bilateral collective bargaining within national framework so that high wage islands are not created.
11.To encourage the development of incentive systems of payment with a view to raising productivity and the real wages of workers.
12.To bring about a more efficient allocation and utilisation of man-power through wage differentials and appropriate systems of payments. In order to achieve the above objectives under the national wage policy, the following regulations have been adopted by the state:



The 7^th CPC has asked us two important questions for comparison of pay scales one question in Para No 2 and other in Para No 7.

The Central Government employment consists of nearly 90% of Group “C” workers, there interest should be protected while demanding wages, and we should not ask for a fair wages in comparison with public sector undertakings nor private sector as the wages are high in Central Government sector compared to other sectors .  The National wage policy will affect the wage structure of the CG employees badly rather than benefitting it.  

Government is a model employer and they should pay us need base minimum wage as per 15^th ILO which works out Rs 27,000/ since initial recruitment is taking place at MTS they should give us Rs 35,000/ as minimum salary.    

There should not be any comparison with perquisites between Government and the private sector nor any other sector, because of following facts: 

a)   The duties and responsibilities of the Central Government employees are quite different with private persons.  

b)   Highly talented persons are being recruited to the Central Government services. 

c)   The Central Government employees are more responsible and accountable than private services. 

d)    The Scientific & Technical services and other of the Central Government services much more advanced and have more technical knowledge than private counterparts.

e)   Main consideration in the private sector being ‘profit’, and in Government it is “service” hence an equal comparison with the Government is not going to be ever possible.

f)    The motto of the Government various agencies in the Government such as Railways, Postal, Agriculture, Water, Research Departments etc. is “service’”. Government is a model employer, hence the wages should be paid as per requirement not considering profit. Railways, Income Tax & Central Excise are revenue earning departments. 

g)   The salaries vary from sector to sector in private, In IT & BT salary structure is very high compared to all Government employees, at Group “B” and above the salaries of the Government employees are lower than Private sector at all sectors.      

h)   The Central Government Employees are in public contact, they are answerable to general public such as Railways, Postal, Income tax, Central Excise etc.

i)             Many of the allowances are net of taxes in private sector. Where as in  Central Government allowances are taxed.    

ii)                  The Central Government employees once they join easily they donot leave the Govt. service, in case of private employment they change nearly  five companies in life term easily .  The employees in Central Government are more committed to work.

iii)                 The minimum wage work out to Rs 200/ per day for 24 days it works out to Rs 4800/ as wages , The need based minimum wage as per 15 ILO  works out to Rs 27,000/-

Please go through the list of  pay scales

PSU Pay Scales

See link : http://archive.india.gov.in/hindi/govt/studies/annex/2.1.1.pdf

Engineers India

Limited

Officers at levels 12 & above

Level 20 - 23750-28550

Level 19 - 20500-26500

Level 18 - 19500-25600

Level 17 - 19000-24750

Level 16 - 18500-23900

Level 15 - 17500-22300

Level 14 - 16000-20800

Level 13 - 13750-18700

Level 12 - 12000-17500

Employees at levels 1-9

Level 9 - 7400-14750

Level 8 - 6700-13700

Level 7 - 6300-13000

Level 6 - 5800-11800

Level 5 - 5400-10850

Level 4 - 5000-9800

Level 3 - 4800-8900

Level 2 - 4600-8400

Level1 - 4300-7500

NTPC

E9 - 23750-28550

E8 - 20500-26500

E7A - 19500-25600

E7 - 19000-24750

E6 - 18500-23900

E5 - 17500-22300

E4 - 16000-20800

E3 - 13750-18700

E2A - 12000-17500

E-2 - 11225-17250

E-1 - 10750-16750

SG - 10000-16000

W11/S4 - 9300-15590

W10/S3 - 8600-14920

W9/S2 - 7900-13700

W8/S1- 7300-12660

W7 - 6700-11750

W6 - 6200-11200

W5 - 5800-10790

W4 - 5400-10350

W3 - 5000-9590

W2 - 4700-9010

W1- 4400-8430

W0 - 3750-5450

ONGC pay scales

Senior Worker	W-V	Rs.13500-31000
Attendant Grade -I	W-IV	Rs.12000-27000
Attendant Grade -II	W-III	Rs.11000-24000
Attendant Grade –III	W-II	Rs.10500-21000
Junior Attendant	W-I	Rs.10000-1800
Assistant Junior Technician/Assistant Rig man/Assistant Grade III	A-II	Rs.12000-27000
Junior Assistant Technician/Junior Assistant	A-I	Rs.11000-24000
Head Worker	W-VII	Rs.20000-45000
Deputy Head Worker	W-VI	Rs.15000-35000
Senior Worker	W-V	Rs.13500-31000

Bank

If we compare the salary of bank employees with Central Government employees we can find that Central Government Employees are better paid than Bank employees.

For example a clerk in Bank and Central Government  

Central Govt. the minimum salary at entry level  of LDC is Rs 19,000/-

In case of Assistant level it is around Rs 34,000/

In case of Bank Clerk employees it is Rs 17,000/-

JMGS I officers in a bank is Rs.32,471

Source: http://www.allbankingsolutions.com/Wage-Revision/Xth-Bipartite-Settlement/Comparative-Salaries-in-GoI.htm

 Expected Gross Salaries After IBA offer of 10% Hike on 27.01.2014 is Rs 18709/- even this is lower than present salary structure of the CG employees.

Private Sector vs CG employees.

Post Office:

Postal Clerk : Rs 19,000/

Co-operative Society bank clerk Rs 10,000/-

Post men in CG gets Rs 17,000/- as salary

Courier service boy will get Rs 8,000/- as salary .

IT sector:

An Engineer in CG gets Rs 35,000/- as salary

An Engineer I IT sector gets 45,000/ as salary.

Driver :

A driver in CG gets salary from Rs 19,000/ to 45,000/

In Private sector it is Rs 10,000/- to Rs 20000/-

MTS

A MTS in CG gets salary from Rs 17,000/ to 25,000/

In Private sector it is Rs 5,000/- to Rs 10000/-