Employees Corner, Education and Govt Jobs
According to the Daily Nawa-e- Waqt dated 05-11-2012; and Daily Jang, Federal Govt has decided to introduce Revised Pay Scales wef 01-01-2013. Govt has decided to revise the Basic Pay Scales before the upcoming election 2013 and in this way there will be a increase in pay and allowances of the Govt employees.
Have you got new job? And you are worried how much salary you will get? What will be your home take salary? Many questions like this aroused from the new appointed employees & the persons they just got the letter of their appointment in various departments. It is natural thing that when a person gets his/her job he/she is only informed about the basic pay not the other allowances. When they see only the Basic Pay many of them think they will get only this pay as net home salary, some of these new appointed staff doesn’t join the duty only when they see that they will get a little salary. But the reality is different from this imagination. Many of these new appointed staff doesn’t know that they will also get some other allowances that will make their salary even to more than double as compared to their basic pay.
Punjab Govt has issued Special Allowance for the employees of Rescue 1122 vide Notification No. SO(CD)5-R-63/2012 dated 31st October 2012. This 15 days Fixed Daily allowance will be admissible on the following conditions:
a- Special Allowance admissible @ basic pay will be allowed @ the rate of initial of basic pay scales 2008 on the analogy of Police Department.
b- This allowance will be admissible only to the staff on operational
According to the daily The News dated 27th October 2012, the pay committee led by Mr. Ishrat Hussain has asked the Govt to introduce fresh pay scales for the Govt Employees so that the discrimination found among the employees be removed. He said” “We have conditioned the finalizing of the committee’s recommendations on the removal of existing distortions because just lip service will not serve the purpose,” said Husain. “The creation of fresh pay scales is necessary to attracting talented people into public service as with the existing pay structure of BS-17, no one will come into the public sector.”
According to the Daily Times dated 04-10-2012 page number 7 a great package of Pay and Allowances is to soon finalized and announced soon by the Federal Govt. The case of finalizing the pay and allowances packages for the Federal Govt Employees is under process in the Ministry of Finance. This package will be presented before the Prime Minister on Friday dated 05-10-2012 for initial approval. Unified Pay Scales, Monetization of Housing Facility and Monetization of Conveyance are included in this package. The salient features of these packages are as under:
The Federal Govt has increased the rates of Over-Time Allowance to Staff Car Drivers and Dispatch Riders wef 01-08-2012. Vide Notification No. F.4 (1) R-5 /2010 dated 9th August 2012. Over time allowance for Staff Car Drivers and Dispatch Riders will be Rs. 25/- per hour instead of Rs. 20/- per hour subject to a maximum limit Rs. 150/- per day.
Pay fixation occurs on many occasions in the service life of an employee. It is generally fixed when an employee is promoted, upgraded, re-appointed, gets move-over, gets selection grade, on getting advance increments etc. The move-over and selection grade have already been eliminated in December 2001. However if there is any back date case of such category pay can be fixed. Let’s see the detailed view of pay fixation.