Recent
Office Memorandum issued by DOPT for stepping up of pay of Senior Employees at
par with junior employees who are getting more pay than seniors on account of
ACP:
Check the following Office
Memorandum issued by DOPT in this issue
ACP- Govt allows
stepping up of of pay of Senior Employees at par with Junior Employees if by
virtue of ACP junior employee drawing more pay (OM No:
35034/1/97-Estt.(D) dated 04.10.2012)
The Tribune in its latest
release explains this stepping up of pay as follows
Removing certain anomalies in
its career progression scheme, the Central government has ordered stepping up
of pay of employees in cases where a senior is getting lower emoluments than
his junior.
The disparities had arisen
between employees who came under the scheme before 2006 and those who got
benefits between 2006 and 2008 consequent to the implementation of the Sixth
Central Pay Commission (SPC).
Orders issued by the
Department of Personnel and Training earlier this month state, “It has been
decided to allow stepping up of pay in such cases where the senior, but for the
pay revision on account of the SPC, would have continued to draw higher pay”.
A large number of Central government
employees will be financially benefited by this order. The employees affected
had taken up the matter with the government and the anomalies committee,
following which the issue was examined by the Department of Expenditure.
The government’s Assured
Career Progression Scheme (ACPS), which granted two financial upgrades on completion
of 12 and 24 years of regular service to employees who did not get promotion in
the existing grade, was applicable up till August 2008.
It was replaced in September
2008 by the Modified Career Progression Scheme. As the revised pay scales under
SPC were applicable with effect from January 2006, those employees who received
benefits under ACPS between 2006 to 2008 got financial upgrade in the revised
scales. Consequently, senior employees who got benefit under ACPS prior to 1996
began drawing lesser pay than their juniors.
The new order stipulates that
for pay to be stepped up under the scheme, the junior and senior employee
should belong to the same cadre and the posts in which they have been promoted
or upgraded should be identical. Further, the senior employee should have been
drawing equal or more pay than the junior before receiving ACPS benefits.
Source: IRTSA and Tribune
