Equal pay for Equal work
raja
(Querist) 23 June 2011
This query is : Resolved
Sir,
I am a Central Govt employee working in Mumbai as UDC. The DOPT has issued an order dated 22.6.2011 granting Non functional Selection Grade to 30% of UDCs in Central Secretarait Services in the Grade Pay of 4200. Prior to this posts of UDCs carried the same scale / pay in the Secretariat offices and Field Offices. Even the 6th Pay commission recommended parity between the secretariat and feild office staff upto the level of Assistant (Excerpts attached herewith). But the DOPT in 2009 gave the Assistants in CSS GP of Rs.4600 vis-a-vis the Assistants in Field offices who draw gp of Rs.4200. Now the DOPT has further aggravated the situation by giving the UDCs a NFSG of Rs.4200
I would like to know whether the SC decision in the case of AK Behara vs .Union of India in WP (Civil) 261 of 2007 applies in such a case where the posts of UDCs in field and secretariat offices held the same pay throughout from the 1st pay commission to the sixth pay commission.
please guide me to enable me to take appropriate action
P.R. Iyengar
9821844670
Kirti Kar Tripathi
(Expert) 24 June 2011
You may try. Principle of Equal pay far equal work is applicable where there exist equal party in nature of work and post.
