FREEZING OF DEARNESS ALLOWANCE AND DEARNESS RELIEF (Click the link below to view)
Thursday, 23 April 2020
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
APPEAL
We on behalf of Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers and NFPE, Appeal to all our members and Office bears of all Constituent organisations , please help the poor workers by providing them food articles and other things which they require, if you find anybody near to you.
This time the migrant daily wages workers are suffering a lot and most of them remain hungry. Though various Governments are making tall claims but this is the reality that food is not reaching to all needy persons. So please help.
If any financial assistance is required, please intimate, Confederation and NFPE Headquarter.
We shall try our best to help the needy workers.
R N.Parashar
Secretary General
Confederation & NFPE
Monday, 13 April 2020
Payment of Wages of outsourced employees/ Daily wagers for the Month of March 2020. All field units shall ensure payments to contractors against payment of wages.
Government of India
Central Public Works Department
Office of DDG (W)
Central Public Works Department
Office of DDG (W)
No. PM/CPWD/Camp
Dated 11th April, 2020
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Payment of Wages of outsourced employees/ Daily wagers for the Month of March 2020.
The undersigned is directed to convey that all field units shall ensure payments to contractors against payment of wages of outsourced employees/Daily wagers for the Month of March 2020. I am further directed to convey that above payments to contractors must be made before making any other contractual payment for supply or work done under 2059 (M & R) and 2216 (M & R). All field units are requested to immediately release payment today itself and confirm that payments have been made. All SDGs/ADGs are requested to send the compliance report of the same with the Nos. of benefited workers. Reports may be compiled at SDG/ADG level and forwarded to Director (PM & PG) at email dirpm@nic.in urgently for onward submission to MOHUA.
This issue with the approval of DDG(W).
(P K Gupta)
Dir. (P PG)
Dir. (P PG)
To
1- All the SDGs, ADGs, CEs through CPWD Website.
Source: https://cpwd.gov.in/WriteReadData/work_proj/45385.pd
Friday, 10 April 2020
NFPE
NFPE
ALL
INDIA POSTAL CASUAL, PART TIME CONTINGENT AND CONTRACT WORKERS FEDERATION
Central
Head Quarters, NEW DELHI
ADVISOR: COM. C.C.
PILLAI
PRESIDENT: COM. M. KRISNAN
WORKING
PRESIDENT: Com.
Y.NAGABHUSHANAM Web site:
aipcpccwf.blogspot.in
GENERAL SECRETARY: COM. P. MOHAN email:
yn.krishna@yahoo.in
No. aipcpccwf/appeal/4/20
DT.8-04-2020
TO
THE
SECRETARY
DEPT.OF
POST
NEW
DELHI 110 001
Sub- REQUEST FOR IMOLIMENTATION OF MOF/DEPT
.OF EXPENDITURE ORDER ON PAYMENT OF WAGES
TO CASUAL WORKERS-REG
REF:-1. MOF. ORDER NO. F.NO.23[4]E.COORD/2020/1 DT.23-3-20
2. NFPE LETTER A/T SECRETAY, DEPT OF POST
NO. PF-COVID-19/2020 DT.3-4-2020
RESPECTED
SIR,
We submit that ministry of Finance,Dept. of Expenditure issued
instructions on payment of wages to casual/contract/out sourced & daily
rated mazdoors vide letter cited u/r at sl.1 and NFPE also sent letter on this
to issue instructions to lower level for implementation of the same.
But
unfortunately the same was not forwarded by the department to lower level,
because of which in many circles they are deprived of their wages due to lock
down. They are the lowest paid workers in the Department working sincerely with
devotion to duty in spite of corona threat.
As
such kind Secretary is requested to forward the ministry orders for
implementation and save the low paid workers from starvation and render service
to the Department.
An
early action and a line in reply are requested.
Thanking you sir,
Yours
faithfully,
[P.
MOHAN]
GENERAL
SECRETARY.COPY TO: SECRETARY GENERAL,NFPE FOR INFORMATION &N/A
NFPE
NFPE
ALL
INDIA POSTAL CASUAL, PART TIME CONTINGENT AND CONTRACT WORKERS FEDERATION
Central
Head Quarters, NEW DELHI
ADVISOR: COM. C.C.
PILLAI
PRESIDENT: COM. M. KRISNAN
WORKING
PRESIDENT: Com.
Y.NAGABHUSHANAM Web site:
aipcpccwf.blogspot.in
GENERAL SECRETARY: COM. P. MOHAN email:
yn.krishna@yahoo.in
No. aipcpccwf/appeal/WB/4/20
DT.8-04-2020
TO
THE CHIEF POST MASTER GENERAL
W.BENGAL CIRCLE
KOLKATA
Sub- REQUEST FOR IMOLIMENTATION OF MOF/DEPT
.OF EXPENDITURE ORDER ON PAYMENT OF WAGES
TO CASUAL WORKERS-REG
REF:-1. MOF. ORDER NO. F.NO.23[4]E.COORD/2020/1 DT.23-3-20
2. NFPE LETTER A/T SECRETAY, DEPT OF POST
NO. PF-COVID-19/2020
DT.3-4-2020
RESPECTED
SIR,
It
was brought to the notice of this union that MOF order cited u/r above was not
implemented in some divisions particularly in north Bengal dn. in respect of
payment of wages to casual,contract,out sourced & daily rated mazdoors
during the period of lock down because of which they are suffering a lot
without any financial help.
I
would like to bring to your notice that they are the lowest paid workers
working sincerely or else regular employees cannot attend to duties.
As such I request the kind CPMG to consider their case sympathetically
and appropriate orders basing on ministry of finance orders for payment of
wages to them may be issued to all concerned and help the poor workers and show
your humanity.
An
early action and a line in reply is requested.
Thanking you sir,
Yours
faithfully,
[P.
MOHAN]
GENERAL
SECRETARY
COPY
TO:- 1.S.G. NFPE,NEW DELHI
2. CIRCLE
SECRETARY,AIPCPCCWF,WB CIRCLE
Friday, 3 April 2020
PAYMENT OF WAGES TO PART-TIME/DAILY RATED MAZDOOR
NFPE WRITES TO THE DEPARTMENT
National Federation of Postal Employees
1st Floor North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110 001
Phone: 011.23092771 e-mail: nfpehq@gmail.com Mob: 9718686800/9319917295 website: http://www.nfpe.blogspot.com
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No. PF-Covid-19/2020 Dated: 3rd April, 2020
To
Shri P.K. Bisoi,
Secretary,
Department of Posts,
Dak Bhawan,
New Delhi-110 001
Sub:- Payment of wages to Part-time/Daily Rated Mazdoor (DRM) and outsourced persons working in Postal Department during lockdown period due to COVID-19
Sir,
Kindly refer to Dept. of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, OM F.No.23 (4)/E. Coord/202O/I dated 23/3/2020. The basic spirit of the OM is that casual, contract and outsourced workers in different Depts., who will not be able to attend office in view of lockdown order regarding Covid-19 prevention, as announced by various State Govt. and finally in general by Central Govt. they shall be treated as on duty during such period of absence and necessary pay/ wages would be paid to them accordingly to avoid their hardship in this crisis. This OM shall apply till 30th April 2020.
In these circumstances, you are requested to cause follow up instructions so that Part-time / Daily Rated Mazdoor (DRM), outsourced persons working in all Post Offices/ Business Offices/RMS/ MMS offices in different Circles and are not in a position to attend offices for lock down etc may get due wages for the period as stated in above OM to avoid their hardship.
With regards,
Yours Sincerely,
(R.N. Parashar)
Secretary General
Thursday, 2 April 2020
CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS DEMAND URGENT INTERVENTION BY THE LABOUR MINISTER
INTUC AITUC HMS CITU AIUTUC
TUCC SEWA AICCTU LPF UTUC
Date: 1.04.2020
To
Shri Santosh Gangwar
The Minister for Labour and Employment,
Govt. of India
Shram Shakti Bhawan, Rafi Marg
New Delhi - 110001
Sir,
We the Central Trade Unions would like to draw your attention to the complaints/information/grievances being received by us from the workers, employees and our unions from all over India. On our part we are doing whatever possible at our level in contacting the concerned officials of various government/state enterprises/institutions/industries/sectors and the state & local administration for the redressal. Our unions and activists are also involved in the relief work despite constraints of movement.
However we are bringing to your notice for seeking your immediate intervention at your level.
At the outset we would like to point out that we had raised several issues in our joint letter addressed to the Prime Minister on 26th March 2020 (letter attached) . We had demanded immediate announcement of strong statutory enforceable measures to arrest and put a ban on the ongoing spree of retrenchments, wage cut, forced unpaid leave etc being perpetrated by the employers on the workers, particularly contract/casual/temporary/fixed term workers in various establishments, particularly in private sector throughout the country to be enforced both by central and state governments. We are still regularly getting information of forced unpaid leave etc. including from NCR region. Appeal/Advisory by the Govt, both the Labour Ministry and Home Ministry is not at all working at ground level to prevent loss of employment and earnings and also eviction from local residence in the process of lock down. We had detailed the demands about the immediate packages for various sectors of workers.
The experience of the past seven days unfortunately bears out our apprehensions. We give some instances:
Employees manning essential services run in the public/government sector being stopped and detained by the police, in spite of their holding valid Identity Cards issued by the concerned authorities, the contract/outsourced workers mostly not being provided any protective gear. Even the ASHA and Anganwadi workers who are working in the frontline in combating Corona are being tortured and manhandled in various states by Police and local miscreants with impunity.
A vast number of workers, not even registered in any of the welfare boards and for whose benefit the Government claims to be putting in place the Social Security Code, suddenly find themselves without work, without any support system to feed them and cut off far away from their native places. There are reports pouring in from all the States that workers’ services are being dispensed with in total disregard of the “Advisory” by the Secretary Ministry of Labour and also by Home Secretary.
The government has not mobilized any machinery to transport grain supplies in their Godowns to various rationing outlets in States. Restriction on inter-state transport movement made the situation difficult further. Hoarding is rampant and the prices of essential commodities are shooting up which is causing further hardship to the working people.
We urge you to impress upon the concerned departments to deal with those seeking opportunity in this hour of crisis or being callous to the plight of the masses, by enforcing the message of government advisories, to ensure that everyone has the means to feed himself/herself.
The migrant workers are in deep distress with no work, no money and removal from their work places and in many cases eviction from the rented accommodations, and have nothing to depend upon for stay and food and are desperately attempting to reach back to their home facing police highhandedness. Due to sudden lock down, the rail and road transport shutdown, they are walking on highways hundreds of miles, some of them along with their families including small children. Many of them are stopped/detained, insulted and humiliated by police particularly on the inter-state borders and are now staying under the sky midway. And above this, there are reports of deaths due to accidents and hardships.
We urge you that the government must act urgently to rescue them with necessary transport facilities and they should be provided with food, shelter water and required health services. This is in line with the directions/advisories issued by the Home Secretary to all state govts. But Central Govt also must take the responsibilities to facilitate implementation of their own advisories/directions.
Please also ensure that all the unorganized workforce, registered and un registered, the daily/casual/contract/outsourced and piece rated home based workers, agriculture workers, MGNREGA and scheme workers including ASHA, Mid day meal, Anganwadi and others in such a category, those who are truck drivers and helpers, coolies/porters/loaders unloaders, construction & beedi workers, the domestic workers, waste pickers, self employed as hawkers-vendors, rickshaw pullers, e-rickshaw/auto/taxi drivers etc. are covered for the cash and ration relief at the earliest. Public Distribution System be used effectively and universally for all these needy people. Opening of procurement centers for the farm produce near to villages and towns could also help the accessibility to the producers and buyers. A comprehensive income-support scheme for all the unorganized/informal sector workers is the urgent need of the hour and we urge the Govt to urgently act upon the same to save overwhelming majority of the country’s workforce from biggest human disaster. Bank branches in some cases are 40 – 50 kilometer from the place of workers/their families, hence the other methods of disbursal of cash transfer should also be devised.
The ESIC hospitals and dispensaries be furnished with all necessary protective equipments for the safety of medical, paramedical, safai karamcharis and other staff while giving their services. The necessary inputs of medical facilities be taken care off. They should also be considered for insurance cover.
In view of the ever-growing scale and spread of the problems of these workers particularly migrant workers, and the trade unions being in the thick of things we request you to ask the counterparts in ministry of labour in respective states to communicate and coordinate with all the trade unions in their states including formation of trade union committees and issuing valid passes to office bearers of trade unions for addressing the above mentioned issues including their participation in relief work.
INTUC AITUC HMS CITU AIUTUC
TUCC SEWA AICCTU LPF UTUC
PRESS RELEASE
CITU OPPOSES GOVT DECISION THE SLASHING DOWN THE INTERESTS RATE ON SMALL SAVINGS, PPF ETC
Press Release ` 1st April 2020
CITU OPPOSES GOVT DECISION THE SLASHING DOWN THE INTERESTS RATE ON SMALL SAVINGS, PPF ETC WHICH WILL AFFECT THE SUPERANNUATED WORKERS AND EMPLOYEES-THE SENIOR CITIZENS MOST
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions denounces Govt decision to drastically reduce the interest rates on small savings by around 140 basis points. This is a second-time reduction in interest rate on small savings within a span of less than one year, last being in June 2019. This will affect financially the mass of the populace, the superannuated, income-less several crores of senior citizens in particular who survive mainly on the meager return on their savings. It will also act as disincentive for generations of small savings of the common people through Govt-run savings instruments, which is an important source of resources for both the central and state governments for developmental work. This decision will also act in promoting the mutual funds and other speculative financial instruments being run by major big corporate, in collaboration with foreign financial agencies.
This cut in interest rates on small savings is being justified for sustaining govt revenue and contain the fiscal imbalance owing to economic slowdown and post lockdown situation which is nothing but a deceptive plea. .
The questions arise, why the has the Govt left, rather freed the ultra rich section from sharing the burden of so called fiscal-imbalance,–the so called high net-worth-individuals(HINI)-all from big corporate/business community –who have cornered more than 50 per cent of national wealth, wholly burdening the people?
It is these toiling people in industries, services and agriculture who creates wealth for the national economy, delivers resources to national exchequer shouldering the increasing and widening burden of indirect taxes and also income tax through deduction from their wages. And now they are being fleeced further despite they being worst affected and sufferers of economic slowdown and also unavoidable lockdown phenomenon.
And the so called HINI from the big corporate/business community are favoured with tax concessions worth lakhs of crores of rupees in every budget including the latest one and yet they habitually evade their direct tax obligations after consuming all concessions, which is indirect and patronised pilferage from national exchequer. Only during 2014-2019, the unpaid direct tax accumulation from the same class has reached Rs 5.84 lakh crore as per official estimate. This very community of HINI is favoured with a rebate/waiver of more than Rs 2 lakh crore of their due bank-loans during last year. Why should not they be charged additional tax/cess out of their huge accumulated wealth which are amassed through extraction and expropriation of the wealth created by the working people. Why should there not be stringent action of recovering from them, their unpaid accumulated direct tax dues?
CITU denounces the brazenly anti-people discriminatory action of the Govt in slashing down the interest rate on small savings. CITU reiterates the demand of the entire trade union movement to differentially treat the interests rates on social security savings and small savings instruments from commercial interest rate, and maintain them at a higher level. CITU also demands restoration of the interest rates on all small savings.
Issued by
( Tapan Sen )
General Secretary
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