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The increase in DA to 90 per cent would result in additional annual expenditure of Rs 10,879 crore.
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The central staff will now get 65 per cent of the basic pay as DA as against 58 per cent since July 1, 2011.
The Union Cabinet today approved the release of an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance at 6 per cent to central government employees and dearness relief to pensioners. The allowance will be released with effect from January 1, 2008. The DA rate now stands at 47 per cent.
The Union Cabinet On Thursday approved a hefty 6 percentage point increase in the cost of living allowance, earlier called Dearness Allowance, from 16 to 22 per cent of basic pay. The new rates will be effective for 14 months from January 1 this year to February 2010, and the Centre will take a hit of Rs 6,020 crore
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The Union Cabinet has approved eight per cent hike in dearness allowance (DA) for central government employees with effect from January 1.
The Centre is expected to increase the dearness allowance by 10% to 100% by the end of February.
As many as 8.5 lakh bank employees are set to benefit from the wage hike, which will be effective from November 2017.
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The Union Cabinet has cleared four per cent dearness allowance to government employees, official sources said on Monday.
Vaidyanathan apologised to the court but added that the present plea was filed as another petition challenging a high court order dated April 11, 2022 is pending before the apex court.
His remarks came on a day when Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi announced slashing of the power tariff by Rs 3 per unit for the domestic sector and increasing the dearness allowance for government employees.
The decision to provide higher DA to employees will cost the exchequer an additional Rs 9,303.2 crore (Rs 93.03 billion) per annum, an official spokesperson said after a meeting of the Union Cabinet, where it was decided to raise the allowance.
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The decision, taken by the Cabinet at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday, was based on recommendations given by the Second Pay Revision Committee. The package would include revision in Dearness Allowance and other allowances, besides performance related incentives, Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan told reporters.
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The proposed hike is in accordance with the accepted formula based on the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission
Their implementation is expected to create investment owing to improving ease of doing business as well as initiating pro-worker measures.
The four labour codes are unlikely to be implemented this fiscal in view of slow progress on the drafting of rules by the states and also for political reasons like elections in Uttar Pradesh, a source said. The implementation of these laws assumes significance because once these are implemented there would be reduction in take-home pay of employees and firms have to bear higher provident fund liability. "The ministry of labour is ready with the rules under the four labour codes. But the states have been slow in drafting and finalising those under new codes.
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The hike would be effective from January 1, 2013 and the employees and pensioners will be entitled to arrears.
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After stiff resistance from its employees against a steep pay cut, National Aviation Company of India Ltd), which runs Air India, has come out with a fresh proposal to impose a 15-17 per cent cut on the total salary package.The total package includes basic salary, dearness allowance, house rent allowance and payments made under the productivity-linked incentive scheme . The cut, however, would not be applicable on 4000 employees.
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Maharashtra Government on Thursday suspended former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh and initiated disciplinary proceedings against him over "certain irregularities and lapses", an official said.
The Orissa government has raised the minimum wages for the domestic helps. The minimum wage of such workers has been fixed at the same level as for the unskilled workers. So a domestic help will be entitled to get a basic wage of Rs 2,340 per month.
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