Pay Commision to benefit handful, feel staff unions

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Even as the Sixth Pay Commission on Monday proposed an average of 40% hike for central government employees, staff organisations alleged on Monday that the proposals will benefit “only a handful of superior officers” with employees at the lower cadre “completely ignored” by the panel.

The leaders of the organisations said they are launching protests over the report and will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union finance minister P Chidambaram to convey their displeasure.

“We were demanding a minimum entry level salary of Rs 10,000. The recommendation is only 6,660. Even according to the fifth pay commission report, it has to come around Rs 7,500. It’s much below what we were expecting," general secretary of the Confederation of Central Government Employees KKN Kutti said. “Prime facie, this report is not acceptable to us," Kutti told FE.

General secretary of the BSNL Employees Union VAN Namboodiri too said the report will benefit only a handful of higher-level officers. “The commission followed the liberalisation logic of paying the upper class in the government more and less increase for the lower level staff," Namboodiri told FE.

The pay panel’s recommendations, however was welcomed by the BJP and the CPIM. The BJP on Monday urged the Centre to implement the recommendations expeditiously to reduce the distress felt by lakhs of employees amidst spiraling prices of essential commodities.