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FDE decision on Saturday working day draws flak
August 4, 2021
Islamabad : The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has declared Saturday as a working day for the public sector educational institutions it regulates in Islamabad Capital Territory.
The FDE declared a six days work week amid the COVID-19 surge when the ICT administration imposed a smart lockdown in various sectors and restricted the movement of residents in 27 streets in different sectors due to a COVID-19 spike and higher positivity ratio.
The teachers said the most paradoxical thing was that the controlling office, FDE, was closed on Saturdays.
A teacher at the Islamabad Model Postgraduate College told The News that though the monsoon arrival had provided relief to the people from hot and humid weather, infectious diseases were spreading.
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FDE’s revised honorarium formula draws flak
Islamabad
May 5, 2021
Islamabad : The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has announced revised formula for the grant of honorarium to its employees reducing the amount for non-teaching employees and excluding teachers.
According to officials, honorarium is a way of rewarding good performance and incentivizing employees. If an employee makes an extra effort to reach institution’s goals, he is rewarded with honorarium. Performance is the only satisfactory basis for an employer to justify any differences in the amount of honorarium. Fairness is central to the employees’ reward system.
Under the new formula, the upper limit for BS-1 to BS-9 employees is fixed as Rs20,000 while the employees of BS-11 to BS-17 can be granted maximum Rs25,000 depending upon their performance. The maximum amount of Rs30,000 is fixed for the head of the educational institution and Vice Principal with high achievement. Earlier, the employees were gra