Outcome of National Anomaly Committee Meeting held on 29.5.2015 – Next NAC Meeting 9.6.2015

Outcome of National Anomaly Committee Meeting held on 29.5.2015 – Next NAC Meeting 9.6.2015

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Dear Comrades,

Sub: Discussion in the National Anomaly committee meeting.

The meeting of the National Anomaly Committee was held today at Room No. 72 , North Block. Mrs. Mamatha Kundra, JS(E) Department of Personnel and Training chaired the meeting. The Staff side was represented by:

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CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS NATIONAL CONVENTION OF WORKERS WAS HELD ON 26.05.2015 DECLARATION

CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS NATIONAL CONVENTION OF WORKERS WAS HELD ON 26.05.2015 DECLARATION.

The National Convention Calls upon the Central Trade Unions All India General Strike on 2nd September, 2015.

NATIONAL CONVENTIONAL OF WORKERS, 26.5.2015, DELHI

DECLARATION

This National Convention of Workers being held under the banner of joint platform of all the Central Trade Unions of the country along with independent national federations of all sectors and service establishments expresses deep concern over anti worker, anti-people and pro-corporate actions of the present Govt. at the Centre in pursuance of the policy of the globalisation. During this period the Govt. has been over-busy in amending all labour laws to empower the employers with unfettered justifys to “hire and fire” and stripping the workers and trade unions of all their justifys and benefits besides aggressively pushing through almost unlimited FDI in strategic sectors like Railways, Defence and Financial Sector. Also, through sweeping changes in the existing Land Acquisition Act, farmers’ justify to land and agri-workers’ justify to livelihood are been sought to be drastically curbed and curtailed.

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Skyline

While we are having some rough times here, with wage and labor disputes, strikes, protests, issues of the constitutionality of some government decisions, including the management and ownership of our nation's resources (Iceland Review is always a good site for current affairs news in English) there's always time to stop and enjoy a good view.

This was from atop Arnarhóll on Friday evening, at around 10:30pm. It was a day
that felt like summer was finally, actually, arriving after a long, bleak winter. If you've been here, you might recognize the square tower of the Catholic church there at the bottom left (unfortunately, like so many others, this church has been plagued by charges of abuse, which my friend Paul at Grapevine wrote about in 2012.) In the bottom right corner is the mast of a ship in the old harbor, and just out of view stands the Harpa Concert Hall. This simple skyline will be changing soon, with the addition of more glass and steel, with ground having been broken for the building of a lux hotel right in front of the white building in the center of the shot (the local construction group Mannvít have a pretty sexy website with info in English on the project, to be developed by the US-based Carpenter & Company.) So let's hope they all do a nice job, so that the ultra-rich have a suitable place to stay while here (not a joke: they've been complaining, I've heard...) But no matter what pops up, it will never be able to compete with this kind of sky.

I'll finish up with a sad story with a happy ending: a good friend of mine inherited an island in the middle of the Þjórsá river down on the south coast. He found an abandoned baby seal, and, along with his wonderful dog Skuggi, took it by boat and so car to the Slakki petting zoo in Laugarás. I hope it settles in nicely, and can be reintroduced to the ocean healthy and happy. Here's a good article for a more detailed account : )

Also, I just ran across a photo on the Ljósmyndasafn Reykjavíkur (Reykjavík Museum of Photography's) facebook page from around 1915 that shows Arnarhóll and the turf house that stood pretty close to where I sat while taking my pic. 

Stepping Up of Pay: DOPT Clarification orders issued on 25.5.2015

Stepping Up of Pay: DOPT Clarification orders issued on 25.5.2015

The DOPT has issued a clarification order regarding ‘Stepping up of Pay’, on 25.05.2015.(Click to view the order)

Clarifications have been given regarding the pay fixation of direct recruit Assistants who had been recruited for Central Government employment on or after 01.01.2006. Instructions have also been issued to all ministries/departments regarding the stepping up of pay at par with the pay of UDCs who were promoted as Assistants, between 01.01.2006 to 31.8.2008.

Normally, revised pay is the pay scale that comes into effect after a new Pay Commission. Pre-Revised Pay is the pay scale that is prevalent prior to the new Pay Commission.

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10th Wage Agreement – IBA Circular

10th Wage Agreement – IBA Circular

Indian Banks’ Association

10th Wage Agreement

Indian Banks Association inked wage settlement with Employee Unions and Officers’ Associations today, 25th May, 2015. The settlement gives 15% increase in salary and Allowances to about 10 lakh bank employees.

Employees and officers from 43 banks including public sector banks, old private sector banks and some of the foreign banks benefit from the wage revision. The current wage revision is effective from 1st November 2012 and will be valid for 5 years. In all 11 All India Employees Unions and Officers’ Associations participated in the wage revision exercise.

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One Rank One Pension – Disappointment for Ex-Servicemen as OROP Doesn’t Figure in Modi’s Speech

One Rank One Pension – Disappointment for Ex-Servicemen as OROP Doesn’t Figure in Modi’s Speech

“One more disappointment for the ex-servicemen who have been waiting for years for the implementation of One-Rank-One-Pension scheme”

Hundreds of thousands of ex-servicemen all over the country were eagerly waiting for any mention of the One-Rank-One-Pension scheme in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s celebratory speech listing the accomplishments of his government in the past one year.

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Inter Ministerial committee to hold threadbare discussions with representatives of Central Trade Unions on 10 point charter of demands

Inter Ministerial committee to hold threadbare discussions with representatives of Central Trade Unions on 10 point charter of demands

Press Information Bureau

Government of India

Ministry of Labour & Employment

26-May-2015 11:48 IST

PRESS NOTE

The Government has decided to constitute following Inter Ministerial committee to hold threadbare discussions with representatives of Central Trade Unions on 10 point charter of demands and other issues being raised by them and for recommending measures to address those issues:-

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