Sunday, July 19, 2015
ALL INDIA
WOMEN’S WORKSHOP – CONFEDERATION
2015 OCTOBER
9TH & 10TH – HYDERABAD
Dear Comrades,
As already intimated the two days All India Women’s Workshop will be held
on 9th &
10th October 2015
(Friday & Saturday)at Hyderabad. The C-O-C Andhra &
Telangana states has taken the task of hosting Women’s Workshop.
Preparatory work for making the event a grand success has already been
started. Detailed programme & notice will be issued and published in
our website shortly. Women’s Workshop will commence at 10:30 AM on 09th October
and conclude at 05:00 PM on 10th October. (Exact venue, place
for stay etc. will also be intimated shortly).
Delegates
from all affiliated organisations and C-O-Cs should compulsorily attend the
Women’s Workshop. The minimum quota fixed for each affiliated
organisation and C-O-Cs is given below. All are requested to ensure
participation of delegates as per quota fixed, WITHOUT FAIL. Delegates
may be instructed to book their up and down tickets immediately.
Delegate fee per head is fixed as
Rs.500/- (Rs. Five Hundred Only).
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SL. No.
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Name of organisation/C-O-Cs
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Number of delegates - Quota fixed
Women’s Workshop
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1
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NFPE
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65
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2
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ITEF
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20
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3
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All India Audit & Accounts Association
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15
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4
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National Federation of Atomic Energy
Employees (NFAEE)
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10
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5
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All India Civil Accounts Employees Association
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15
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6
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All other affiliated organisations
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2 each minimum
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7
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C-O-C West Bengal
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15
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8
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C-O-C Kerala
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15
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9
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C-O-C Tamilnadu
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10
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10
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All other C-O-Cs
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2 each minimum
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11
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C-O-C Andhra & Telangana shall ensure
maximum participation of lady delegates in the Women’s Workshop (Not
Less than 50)
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NB:
(1). While deciding the delegates, the concerned organisations shall include
the All India Office Bearers also in their quota.
(2). All affiliated organisations and
C-O-Cs are requested to issue their own circulars and finalise the names
of the women delegates and instruct them to book their travel ticket without
any further delay.
(3). All India Women’s Committee
Office bearers and committee members should compulsorily attend the workshop.
(4). New Women’s Committee of the
confederation will be elected in the Workshop.
Yours Fraternally,
(M.
Krishnan)
(R.
Seethalakshmi)
Secretary
General
Convenor, Women’s Committee
Confederation
Confederation
POSTAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
FEDERATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATIONS
ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION, GDS (NFPE)
NATIONAL UNION GDS
No.PF-PJCA/2015
Dated: 22nd July,2015
To
Ms.
Kavery Bajerjee,
Secretary,
Department of Posts,
New Delhi-110 001
Sub: Progress
on the items of PJCA Strike Charter of Demands.
Ref:
Directorate, SR Division No. 08/07/2014-SR dated 5th May,2015.
Madam.
Kindly refer to the discussion held in the
meeting on 30.04.2015 on PJCA Strike Charter of Demands. There is no remarkable
progress on most of the items.
Though all items are important but two items are most important which are
mentioned below and the reply given by the Department is also reproduced below:
Item -2 Inclusion of Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS)
in the terms of reference of 7th Central
Pay Commission. Grant of civil servant status to GDS and grant
of all benefits of departmental employees
on pro-rata basis without any discrimination.
Reply: It was decided that the proposal will be strongly recommended and
referred to D/o
Expenditure for reconsideration. (Action DDG (Estt)
Item. 9: Implement cadre restructuring in postal,
RMS, MMS and Postal
Accounts as per
the proposal signed with the JCM (DC) staff side
Reply: The proposal for cadre restructuring of Gr. ‘C’ employees,
will be sent to DOP&T next week. The proposal for MMS and DAP will be
sent to DOP&T within a
period of two months. (Action DDG (Estt) / DDG(PAF)
But it is very sorry to say that no progress is
reported on the both items. It is learnt that 7th CPC is now preparing report and may submit its
report to Finance Ministry upto 31s August, 2015 and its report will be
implemented w.e.f. 01.01.2016. But there is no response about
inclusion of GDS in 7th CPC. The poor GDS employees are eagerly waiting
the favourable decision but it appears that they are being deprived from their
basic rights and natural justice.
Similar is the position of Cadre Restructuring. After lapse of three months
period there is no response from Department. During the meeting it was assured
that cadre restructuring will be implemented before 31st July 2015 though later it was not mentioned in
the minutes. If the Cadre restructuring proposal is not implemented before 7th CPC report, the entire process will go in vain
and Postal employees will be deprived from their benefit.
It is therefore requested to kindly bestow your personal attention on the
matters and cause early redressal of the grievances to maintain co-ordial
relations between staff and administration failing which the unions will be
compelled to launch agitational programmes.
Hoping for a positive response,
Yours Sincerely
(D.
Theagarajan)
(R.N. Parashar)
Secretary General
Secretary General
FNPO
NFPE
RECOMMENDATIONS
& CONCLUSIONS
46th SESSION OF I.L.C.
CONCLUDING SESSION OF 46TH ILC
The 46th session of India Labour Conference concluded yesterday
at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi where the recommendations and conclusions were
adopted on 5 chosen agenda items after the at length tripartite deliberations
which lasted 2 days.
In his concluding remarks, the
chairman of the ILC and Labour and Employment Minister of state (Independent
Charge) , Shri Bandaru Dattatreya reiterated his Governments commitment to
reform process with tripartite consensus to promote the employment generation
at a massive scale particularly for the aspiring youth population of this
country. The consensus conclusions/recommendations on each of the agenda items
are reproduced here:
Implementation of the
conclusions/ recommendations of the 43rd, 44th and 45th Indian labour
conference, particularly on contract labour, Minimum wages and scheme workers
and tripartite mechanism Conclusions of the committee are as follows:-
The committee debated the recommendations of
the 43rd, 44th and 45th Indian labour conference at length and expressed its
concern over non-implementation of the conclusions, particularly on contract
labour, Minimum wages, scheme workers and tripartism. It was therefore
unanimously recommended that concrete measures should be undertaken to
expeditiously implement the recommendations in letter and spirit. Periodic
reviews should be undertaken by the stakeholders.
Recommendations of conference committee on “social security for
organized, unorganized and migrant International workers”
There was an in-principle
agreement for coverage of all workers organized as well as unorganized under
social security with support wage by Government, if required, for providing
decent living conditions. The committee recommended that:
I. Mechanism
for identification and registration of unorganized workers should be provided.
Special drive should be launched for the said purpose and, if required, direct
registration by the Government.
II.
Schemes for organized/ unorganized workers should be made efficient.
III.
Budgetary provisions should be made for those unorganized workers who are not
covered under any specific social security scheme.
IV. The cost of registration
of unorganized workers should be borne by the Central/ State Government.
V. There
should be proper utilization of fund collected through building construction
cess and administrative expensed should not be for what is not stipulated.
VI. The Anganwadi/ Asha/ Mid-day meal
and other such workers, the committee reiterated that they should
be extended coverage under ESI/ EPF.
VII. As regards ESIC, the
following recommendations were given:-
a. ESIC to expand to cover all states/
UTs. All districts where scheme is running at present should be covered fully/
b. The ESIC scheme to be expanded to
unorganized sector by reducing the threshold form present 10. Self
employed should be provided medical benefit, in phases.
c. The ESIC should directly run the
health services in all the states. Stated should not be asked to bear the cost
of Medical expenses.
d. Medical Facilities should be expanded at a
fast pace; establishments of hospitals and dispensaries should be decided based
on geographical necessity.
e. All construction workers should be
covered under ESI.
f. ESI coverage for round the clock for
medical benefit.
VIII. As regards EPF, recommendations were:-
a. Medical Scheme to EPS pensioners from
the surplus Corpus of EDLI Scheme.
b. Extension of coverage by reducing threshold
form 20 to 10. ‘Member of LUB opposed this’
c. Coverage of both inter-state and
international migrant workers under EPF Act.
d. EPF pension should be enhanced and linked
with price index.
IX. Wages definition should
be uniform for all labour laws.
X. There should be a
mechanism so that employers can deposit social security contributions at single
window.
XI. For construction
workers, there should be a single contribution from employer.
XII. Implementation of the decisions
taken by 43rd, 44th and 45th ILC with regard to Social Security.
However, on the point of optional
schemes for ESI & EPF, the employee’s representatives strongly opposed
whereas the employers representatives were of the view that options should be
available.
Removal of Conditions on payment
Ceiling eligibility Limits, Decisions to pay Minimum Bonus without linking to
loss when the performance indicator satisfy grant of bonus- The major
conclusions emanating from the discussions in the committee are as follows:
The Conference committee on amendment
of Bonus Act – Removal of Conditions on Payment Ceiling, Eligibility Limits.
Decisions to pay Minimum Bonus without linking to loss when the performance
indicator satisfy grant of bonus constituted to discuss the Agenda item No. 3
of 46th session of the Indian Labour Conference met under the chairmanship of
Captain Abhimanyu, Minister of Labour, Govt. of Haryana. Shri Om Prakash
Mittal, General Secretary, Laghu Udyog Bharti (LUB) and Ms. Meenakshi Gupta and
Mr. B.B. Mallick, Joint Secretary, MoLE respectively were the Vice-Cheirman and
Member Secretary of the Committee. The Committee had the representation of all
the stake-holders (Workers’ Group, Employers’ Group and State Government).
2. At the very outset, the chairman of the committee
welcomed all the representatives. He observed that the issue of bonus has been
pending for long. He expressed the hope that all the partners would understand
and appreciate the position of each other and give recommendations keeping in
the view the larger national interest. The Vice-Chairman also welcomed all the
Members. Thereafter, the Member Secretary introduced the subject. The agenda
has following 3 issues:-
(i).
Removal of calculation ceiling;
(ii).
Removal of Eligibility Limit;
and
(iii).
Decisions to pay Minimum Bonus without Linking to loss when the performance
indicator satisfy grant of bonus.
3. It was mentioned that last revision in the limits
(Calculation Ceiling – Rs. 3500 and Eligibility Limit-RS. 10,000) was done in
2007 based on the recommendations of the 41st ILC.
4. The committee had very intense detailed discussions on
all the aspects of the Agenda Item no. 3.
(i).
The Trade Unions were of the view that all the ceilings under the payment of
Bonus Act. 1965 i.e. eligibility ceiling, calculation ceiling and maximum
percent of bonus payable need to be removed. They further expressed that they
would like to reiterate the stand taken by them in the tripartite meeting held
on 20 October, 2014.
(ii).
The Employers, representatives were of the view that total removal of various
ceilings may lead to spurt in industrial relation issues. They observed that
while making any change in the payment of Bonus Act, 1965 productivity of the
workers and paying capacity of the employers have to be taken into account.
They further observed that they are not in favour of indexation of cost of
living for the purpose of ceiling and bonus calculation. The term ‘Employee’
should be substituted by the term ‘workman’ as defined under the industrial
disputes Act. The present system of prescribing limits both for eligibility and
calculation should be retained.
(iii).
The State Government representatives were of the view that minimum, limit of
bonus (8.33%) may continue. Regarding limits with regard to calculation and
payment ceiling it was stated that they had no comments to offer. They further
observed that distinction between statutory bonus and productivity linked bonus
is quite relevant in this regard.
(iv).
The State Government representatives also suggested that the central Government
may consider notifying the limits for eligibility of bonus and calculation of
bonus through and administrative process based on tripartite mechanism rather
then legislative process every time. Appropriate amendment to the payment of
Bonus Act, 1965 may have to be carried out accordingly.
Labour laws Amendments proposed/ done by central or State
Governments Conclusions of the committee are as follows:-
1. The committee reiterates historical role of
tripartite mechanism functioning in the country before any enactment/ amendment
of labour laws.
2. Any labour law amendments/ enactment should take into
account three purpose namely:
(i).
Rights and welfare of workers;
(ii).
Sustainability of enterprises and job creation; and
(iii).
Industrial peace.
3. The labour laws need to be relooked and updated in a
time bound manner.
4. Committee recommends that the overall exercise of the
labour law amendments should be discussed in the tripartite forum and the broad
and specific proposals should also be discussed in tripartite meetings.
Recommendations of committee on “Employment and Employment
Generation” of 46 the Indian Labour conference (ILC) are as follows:-
1. The committee noted that the recommendations
of 43rd to 45th ILC on Employment & Employability need to be fully
implemented.
2. Recognising the employment potential in
micro and small industry, especially in rural areas, an effective single-window
system be established to promoted agro-based and micro & small industries
with facility like concessional finance etc. A system for centralized marketing
of products manufactured by these industries can also be developed.
3. Enhance the outlays and threshold for
public employment generation programmes in both rural and urban areas.
4. Fill up vacant posts in Central Government,
State Governments and Public Sector Undertakings in a time bound manner.
5. Reiterate the necessity for publishing
quarterly employment and unemployment data.
6. With Central and State Government moving to
on-line systems for employment exchanges there is a need for capacity building
of Employment Exchanges officers for their revised roles under National Career
Service (NCS). Need for integration of Central and State IT initiatives to
avoid duplication.
7. Utilization of idle capacity in Vocational
and Educational Institutions and closed/ sick industry for demand responsive
training.
8. Enhance and expand areas for Recognition of
Prior Learning (RPL) with effective assessment.
9. Enhance number and improve quality of
assessors for voc
ational training and consider including ITI faculty for
assessments.
10. To identify labour-intensive industries and new areas
where jobs can be created like renewable energy and reusable resources etc. and
providing employment liked training.
11. Evolve strategies for increasing female
workforce participation in both public and private employment.YSK/Uma (Release
ID :123527)
