The employees of four public sector general insurance businesses received notice of an average 12% pay increase on Saturday from the Ministry of Finance. The pay increases would take effect in August 2017. The General Insurance (Rationalisation of Pay Scales and Other Conditions of Service of Officers) Amendment Scheme, 2022 is the name of the proposed amendment.
This pay adjustment will take effect on August 1st, 2017. The only people who will receive arrears for five years are those who worked for these companies at the time. The following modification is due starting in August 2022, according to a gazette notification dated 14 October 2022. According to the statement, it would take the form of variable remuneration based on the employee and company performance.
The imposition of pay tied to employee performance and company performance, however, hasn’t gone over well with the unions.
“After waiting 64 months, we have serious concerns about the way the wage revision was handled. Given the number of government programs we employees participate in, it seems nonsensical to link pay with performance, according to Trilok Singh, general secretary of the General Insurance Employees’ All India Association (GIEAIA).
He continued by saying that public sector insurance providers do not compete on an even playing field. He claimed that rather than the private sector, it is the staff of state-owned insurance companies that ensures the success of all government programs. According to the general secretary of the GIEAIA, the data indicate that the private sector has lagged behind.
Unions are not opposed to reforms, he insisted, but they should be implemented while considering that these businesses are public ones.
The central government announced the General Insurance Business (Nationalization) Amendment Act in 2021. The government will be able to reduce its ownership of state-owned general insurers to below 51% thanks to this Act.
The salary bill for New India Assurance, National Insurance, Oriental Insurance, and United India Insurance will climb by almost 8,000 crore due to the Central government’s announcement of a 12% hike together with five years of arrears, an official source was reported as saying by PTI.
Every five years, wages are revised for public sector banks and insurance firms. The following pay raise for insurance company employees is scheduled to begin in August 2022.
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