Pay anomaly
Querist :
Anonymous
(Querist) 19 March 2011
This query is : Resolved
I work in a PSU and pay revision w.e.f 1.1. 2007 is implemented recently.
I was working in staff grade in this company and through a fresh recruitment I was absorbed in the company as an officer in march 2007. After implementation of pay revision I found my basic pay is much lower than those who are at my same grade at present.
I joined in the new grade without break in service.
My question is can I make application to the management to make my basic equal to those who are on my same grade and are junior to me by few months and whose length of service is much less than me.(how ever my first joing grade was lower than these people though i am senior to them at present)
R.Ramachandran
(Expert) 19 March 2011
From the facts revealed by you, where you joined in a much lower pay grade compared to others, the question of any pay anomoly would nor arise and consequently you cannot ask for any equal pay with your juniors. This is despite the fact that you may be senior to them in the present rank.
Querist :
Anonymous
(Querist) 19 March 2011
Sir,
Is more length of service associated with seniority a sufficient reason for claiming equall salary? Moreover all got 30% fitment benefit on pay revision(1.1.2007). Due to my absorption to a higher grade (mar 2007) my basic pay became just equal to a new employee of this higher grade( i.e the minimum basic of new grade). In this circumference can I apply for pay anomaly.
R.Ramachandran
(Expert) 19 March 2011
This is what happens when one falsely assumes that he is entitled for something. When after knowing the fact I said that you have no case for claiming equal pay with other juniors, you should leave at it.
Equal salary can be claimed only by those seniors who belong to the same cadre, and got promoted earlier and therefore was fixed at a particular stage in the promoted post, but a junior who never received higher pay in the earlier stage and who got promoted later happens to get higher pay stage because his earlier pay stage happens to result in such higher fixation. Only in those circumstances, where the senior though senior both in lower and higher cadre happens to draw less pay compared to his junior. In your case, this is not the case and hence you cannot ask for equal pay with reference to your junior.
As regards fixation of pay as on 1.1.2007: You were promoted in March 2007 - at that time both your junior grade and promoted grade pay scale were unrevised. Your fixation in the promotional post would have been done only in the pre-revised pay scale with reference to your pre-revised pay scale in the lower post.
Now, with the revision of the pay w.e.f. 1.1.2007, the payscale of both your lower and higher post might have undergone revision. First your pay would have been revised in the lower post by giving the 30% fitment benefit. Thereafter with reference to such pay stage in the lower post, your pay has to be fixed in the revised scale applicable to the higher post. Once a 30% fitment benefit is extended to the pay scale which you were drawing as on 1.1.2007, you are not entitled for additional 30% fitment benefit in the higher post also. Therefore, there is no anomaly of any sort. Just because a new entrant also happens to draw the minimum of the new revised scale like you, does not automatically entitle you to any higher pay - this is because, please refer to my answer to the first point - in this case the fresh candidate and you were never together in the lower post at any point of time, nor did the fresher ever draw any pay lesser than you at any point of time.
