PATIALA:The Powercom employees will launch an immediate protest against the
deliberate attempts by the Punjab finance department and PSPCL/PSTCL management in sabotaging the already implemented pay scales.
PSEB Engineers’ Association, JEs Council , Joint Forum, Officers Accounts Association, IT Officers Association, HR Manager’s Association in a joint statement mentions that after the finalisation of the 6th pay commission of Punjab Government, PSPCL constituted the wage formulation committee, with representatives from the Punjab finance department(FD) to study and finalise the new scales for Powercom employees. On the
recommendation and concurrence of the representative of finance department financial circulars were issued by
the management and new scales have been implemented partially. Ajaypal Singh Atwat general secretary PSEB Engineers Association said that the decisions regarding various allowances, TBPS are still pending. Now on the insistence of the finance department PSPCL management is planning to refer the already implemented pay scales to FD, which clearly indicates that FD is planning to sabotage the new pay scales of power
employees.
The joint press statement mentions that if any such attempt is made to sabotage the already implemented pay scales and the decisions regarding allowances, arrears and TBPS is not finalised as per these pay scales, all associations/ unions representing various sections of employees will start joint protest immediately.
They have appealed to the CM Punjab to intervene and instruct the Finance Department Punjab and PSPCL/ PSTCL management to not make any attempts to sabotage the pay scales and to implement pending allowances and TBPS immediately, so that industrial peace may not be disturbed. Any violation of tripartite agreement either by the power management or the finance department will not be tolerated.
The leaders also appealed to the government to issue strict instructions to the finance department for timely payment of subsidy bills to PSPCL, so that the financial survival of the state power sector can be ensured.