The forum representing central government employees and pensioners will accelerate its discussions around the fitment factor and minimum wages after the Terms of Reference for the 8th Pay Commission gets the government’s nod, persons privy to the matter said.
Fitment factor, notably, is the multiplication unit used for revising the salaries of central government employees. Under the 7th Pay Commission, the fitment factor recommended was 2.57, which ended up raising the minimum salary from Rs 7,000 to Rs 18,000.
“We are waiting for the Terms of Reference for 8th Pay Commission to be approved. Then we will move ahead with our demand for these (fitment factor and minimum wage),” a member of the National Council-Joint Consultative Machinery, or NC-JCM, told NDTV Profit on the condition of anonymity.
NC-JCM, notably, is an official body comprising bureaucrats and employee union leaders, and its purpose is to resolve all disputes between the government and staff through dialogue.
Once the ToR is approved, the staff side’s focus will shift towards their demands to be made before the 8th Pay Commission, and the foremost will be their ask related to the fitment factor and minimum wages, another NC-JCM member said.
Both the persons declined to share a specific range of fitment factor, which they are tentatively expecting the 8th Pay Commission to recommend.
