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Government employees to stage protest today

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NEW DELHI: The Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers has described the Sixth Pay Commission’s recommendations as “totally unacceptable” and decided to stage a protest here on Wednesday to “fight for a decent wage settlement.”

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, the Confederation drew attention to the recommendations that

were made by them but rejected by the Commission, including fixing the minimum wage at Rs 10,000 a month. The minimum wage recommended in the report was even less than what was suggested in the previous Pay Commission, the statement said.

The first four grades, which would now be merged with the upper scale through a process of training, indicated that the unskilled functions in the government sector would be hired on a contractual basis or outsourced, it said.

The grade pay concept had been introduced as a prologue to the initiation of a performance related pay system without specifying any objective yardstick to measure the performance.

By recommending withdrawal of the benefit of merger of DA granted to employees in 2004, the proposed 40 per cent fitment benefit would be reduced to 28 per cent when the actual fixation takes place, the statement said.

To give impetus to the privatisation policy, the Commission had recommended corporatisation of the Indian Railways, and for total outsourcing of all the Group D functions across the board to all Central establishments. “In the circumstances, the Central employees are constrained to reject the retrograde recommendations of the Commission and we demand that the Government renegotiate the wage revision,” the statement said.

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