25pc pay raise agreed after govt employees protest
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ISLAMABAD: Government negotiators have announced that federal employees will be given “ad hoc relief” of 25 per cent, a day after a public sector workers’ protest in Islamabad over a pay raise sparked clashes with the police.
In a press conference on Thursday, defence minister Pervez Khattak, flanked by interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and parliamentary affairs minister Ali Muhammad Khan, said all federal employees would be given ad hoc relief of 25 per cent, while the “issues of upgradation (promotions)” will be resolved after the budget.
Khattak said there is a disparity between the salaries of different departments, which range from 100 to 200 per cent. “The ad hoc relief will be merged in the budget,” he said, adding that the Prime Minister spoke to two chief ministers and asked them to resolve salaries’ issue of provincial employees as per directions of the federal government.
25pc raise in govt employees’ salaries
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February 12, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The government employees on Thursday called off their protest for raise in salaries after reaching an agreement with a special committee constituted by Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The committee comprised Minister for Defence Pervez Khattak, Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan. As per the decision, a 25 percent increase in salaries of federal government employees from grades 1 to 19 was approved on ad-hoc basis.
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Pervez Khattak and Ali Muhammad Khan and the leaders of protesting employees Islam-ud-Din and Rehman Bajwa signed the agreement. Addressing a press conference here accompanied by Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and Ali Muhammad Khan, Pervez Khattak said the ad-hoc relief of 25 percent would be added to the pay scales in the upcoming budget.
Notification of ad hoc relief issued after successful negotiations between ministerial team and protesters
ISLAMABAD:
The government notified on Thursday a 25% ad hoc increase in the salaries of the federal employees following successful negotiations between the protesting secretariat staffers and a three-member ministerial committee.
The finance ministry said in the notification that the federal employees in grade 1 to 19 would get the increased salaries from March 1. It added that the ad hoc relief could be made part of the basic salary in the next fiscal year.
An agreement with protesters was reached after Wednesday’s fierce clashes between the employees and security forces in the federal capital. The employees had been protesting the increase in their wages.
Protesters, police clash paralyses Red Zone
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February 11, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Constitution Avenue turned into a battlefield when the police used force to disperse government employees staging protest demonstration seeking increase in their salaries.
The police resorted to baton charge and threw hundreds of teargas shells to disperse the agitating employees as tens of protesters were arrested and sent to lockups of different police stations.
At least 30 protesting employees were taken into custody under Section 16 of the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO). The teargas shelling in the radius of 3 to 5 kilometre around the Constituted Avenue was so heavy that the people felt suffocation. All incoming roads including Islamabad Expressway and Motorway remained closed for hours. Islamabad Police fired extensive teargas at protesting government employees when they were heading towards the Parliament House.