New Delhi: Seventh Pay Commission Faces Serious Challenge In Submitting Its Recommendation To Government Till December For Hiking Salaries And Allowances For Central Government Employees As The Employees’ Unions Test Its Account Of Controversial Pay Gap Between Top And Bottom Level Government Officials.
The previous pay commission showed a wide gap in pay between the top bureaucrats and the government employees at the bottom.
The first pay
commission was recommended pay of the top bureaucrats 41 times higher
than the government employees at the bottom. The top bureaucrats were
given salary Rs 2,263 while the lowest earning employees got Rs 55.
Subsequent pay
commissions reduced the ratio of pay between lowest earning employees
and top bureaucrats from 1:41 in 1947 to about 1:12 in 2006. The minimum
basic salary of central government employees is now Rs 7730 while
maximum salary at the level of Secretary is Rs 80,000.
Accordingly,
the Seventh Pay Commission will have to consider reduction in the
disparity of pay ratio between its highest and lowest paid employees
because it determines the socialism view of the government and the
higher number of central government employees are in the minimum pay
slabs.
The pay gap increases employee’s turnover and work-related illness, with all the associated economic consequences.
The bureaucrats
with high pay are generally happier, healthier and a better place to
live for almost everyone in them compare to the lower earning employees.
A pay gap is calculated as the ratio of the pay of the highest paid
employee of an organisation to the pay of the average or lowest paid
employee in that organisation.
Seventh Pay
Commission can make recommendations on promoting pay fairness in the
central government employees’ fraternity by tackling disparities between
the lowest and the highest paid central government servants.
The Seventh Pay
Commission, headed by Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur was appointed in
February 2014 and its recommendations are scheduled to take effect from
January 1, 2016.
As part of the
exercise, the Seventh Pay Commission holds discussions with various
stakeholders, including organisations, federations, and groups
representing civil employees as well as defence services.
The Commission
is ready with its recommendations on revising emoluments for nearly 50
lakh central government employees and 55 lakh pensioners, and will
submit report to the Finance Minister till December 31.
Source : http://www.tkbsen.in/
