HMS Archives - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS https://centralgovernmentnews.com/tag/hms/ All about Central Government Employees News. Get the central govt employees latest news, DoPT Orders, 7th Pay Commission, DA Hike, latest notification for pensioners, MACP latest order, da for central government employees, and more. Tue, 07 Nov 2017 16:38:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://centralgovernmentnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-central-government-employees-news-32x32.png HMS Archives - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS https://centralgovernmentnews.com/tag/hms/ 32 32 12 Point Charter of Demands: Meeting of Labour & Employment Minister with Central Trade Union Organizations https://centralgovernmentnews.com/12-point-charter-of-demands-meeting-of-labour-employment-minister-with-central-trade-union-organizations/ https://centralgovernmentnews.com/12-point-charter-of-demands-meeting-of-labour-employment-minister-with-central-trade-union-organizations/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2017 16:38:31 +0000 http://centralgovernmentnews.com/?p=19643 Meeting of Labour & Employment Minister with Central Trade Union Organizations on 12 Point Charter of Demands The Minister of State for Labour and Employment(Independent Charge), Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar met the representative of all Central Trade Unions in Shram Shakti Bhawan on 7th November 2017 to discuss the issues raised in 12 Point Charter […]

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The Minister of State for Labour and Employment(Independent Charge), Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar met the representative of all Central Trade Unions in Shram Shakti Bhawan on 7th November 2017 to discuss the issues raised in 12 Point Charter Demand of CTUOs. The meeting was attended by representatives of major Central Trade Unions including BMS, INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, AICCTU, LPF, UTUC and NFITU as well as Secretary, Labour and Employment Mrs. Sathiyavathy and other the senior officers of the Ministry. 12 Point Charter Demand of CTUOs inter alia raises issues of minimum wages, price rise, unemployment, disinvestment, universal social security, compulsory registration of trade unions, increase in minimum pension under EPFO and strict compliance and enforcement of labour laws. The Minister said that the Government has highest regard for the consultative process and he is committed to uphold it. He referred to the calls for nation-wide demonstrations on 9th-10th and 17th November by the CTUOs and BMS respectively and appealed the Trade Unions to rather engage in the constructive discussions on each of the issue raised by them.

Minister said that the Government and the Ministry of Labour and Employment has consistently and continuously taken pro-labour decisions and initiatives. He talked about initiatives like simultaneous increase in Minimum wages, the provision for National Floor Level Minimum wages in the proposed Labour Code on Wages. The Bonus Amendment Act, the decision to enhance Minimum pension to Rs. 1000/- as well as the other initiatives taken by other Ministries.

Trade Union representatives primarily demanded the Government to address the issues of enhancing Minimum Pension to Rs. 3000/- as well as Minimum Wages. They also talked at length about the issues related to enforcement of labour laws, and social security for unorganized workers including growing contractualization.

A presentation was also made by the Ministry to present an updated status on the 12 demands raised by the CTUOs.

Addressing the Media persons the Minister expressed hope that the talks with the Trade Union Representatives was positive and it was done in a cordial atmosphere. He appealed to the Trade Unions to call off the proposed Dharna.

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]]> https://centralgovernmentnews.com/12-point-charter-of-demands-meeting-of-labour-employment-minister-with-central-trade-union-organizations/feed/ 0 Pre-budget meeting with the representatives of various Central Trade Unions – FM https://centralgovernmentnews.com/pre-budget-meeting-with-the-representatives-of-various-central-trade-unions-fm/ https://centralgovernmentnews.com/pre-budget-meeting-with-the-representatives-of-various-central-trade-unions-fm/#respond Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:27:17 +0000 http://centralgovernmentnews.com/?p=1559 There is A need to Revive investment in Manufacturing and Service Sector in Order to Create higher job Opportunities: FM  The Union Finance Minister Shri P .Chidambaram said that there is a need to revive investment in manufacturing and service sector in order to create higher job opportunities. The Finance Minister said that at present, […]

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The Union Finance Minister Shri P .Chidambaram said that there is a need to revive investment in manufacturing and service sector in order to create higher job opportunities. The Finance Minister said that at present, the economy is passing through a difficult phase mainly due to external factors and, therefore, there is immediate need to tide over the current situation and then move to the path of higher growth. The Finance Minister was making opening remarks during his second pre-budget meeting with the representatives of various Central Trade Unions here today. The Finance Minister said that there was a slowdown in investment in manufacturing sector as a result not enough jobs were created. The Finance Minister Shri Chidambaram said due to the various steps and measures taken by the Government in the last few months, there seems to be a change in the investment sentiments both in public and private sectors. The Finance Minister said that higher growth leads to creation of more jobs. He said trade unions can play an important role in reviving the manufacturing sector which in turn can lead to creation of more job opportunities in the sector.

Along with the Finance Minister, both the Minister of State for Finance Shri S.S. Palanimanickam and Shri Namo Narain Meena, Adviser to the Finance Minister, Shri Parthasarthy Shome, Finance Secretary, Shri R.S. Gujral, Secretary, Financial Services & Disinvestment, Shri D.K. Mittal, Revenue Secretary, Shri Sumit Bose, Secretary Labour & Employment, Shri Mrityunjay Sarangi, Chief Economic Adviser, Dr. Raghuram R. Rajan and Chairman CBEC were present among others.

Representatives of the twelve(12) Central Trade Unions including Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), Indian Trade Union Congress (INTUC), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), Centre of India Trade Unions (CITU), All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC), Trade Union Coordination Centre (TUCC), All India Central Council of Trade Union (AICCTU), United Trade Union Congress (UTUC), Labour Progressive Federation (LPF), Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and National Front of Indian Trade Unions(NFITU) participated in the aforesaid meeting. All of them except NFITU gave a joint memorandum to the Finance Minister for consideration of their proposals in the ensuing Union Budget 2013-14. The major proposals included in the joint memorandum of Central Trade Unions among others are taking effective measures to arrest the spiralling price rice and contain inflation, ban speculative forward trading in commodities, universalise and strengthen the public distribution system, rationalise the tax/duty/cess on petroleum products to reduce burden on common man, massive investment in the infrastructure to stimulate the economy, higher budget allocation in the Plan and Non Plan provisions to create more jobs and guarantee consistent income to the people, minimum wage be guaranteed to all workers as per the recommendations of the 15th Indian Labour Conference, special allocation for creation of a Welfare Fund for protecting the interest of un-organised workers including agriculture workers, lifting of ban on recruitment in Government departments, Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and autonomous institutions, scope of MGNREGA be extended to urban areas and employment for minimum period be increased from 100 days to 200 days, massive workforce engaged in ICDS, mid day meal scheme, vidya volunteers, guest teachers, shiksha mitra etc be regularised and workers engaged in ASHA be brought under the coverage of statutory minimum wage and social security etc.
Beside above, the memorandum also focused that disinvestment of shares to profit making PSUs be stopped forthwith and budgetary support be given for revival of potentially viable sick PSUs. The Union also demanded a progressive taxation system be put in place and concrete steps be taken to recover large accumulated tax arrears, effective measures to unearth huge accumulation of black money in economy including the unaccounted money in tax heavens abroad. Some of the trade unions also demanded minimum wages to be raised to Rs. 10,000/- per month and raise in income tax ceiling for salaried class to Rs. 5.00 lakhs among others. Some of them demanded equal pay for contract workers, increase in age of retirement, increase in pension benefits, more investment in agriculture sector and strict compliance of labour laws among others.
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