Thursday, April 18, 2013

NOINO writes to Chairman on pending issues

NOINO today wrote to the Chairman on the pending issues of Class-I Officers and Employees of the Corporation which need immediate attention of the management. The letter is reproduced below:

18.4.2013
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The Chairman,
L.I.C. of India.

Respected Sir,

Re: Pending issues of Class I Officers & employees

           The Financial Year 2012-2013 has come to a close. Our beloved institution will now gear up to face new challenges in the new Financial Year. We are aware that these challenges are likely to be manifold & complex. We assure our continued co-operation in our institution’s continuous endeavour to innovate & excel in all fields.

          It cannot be denied that the work-force of any institution, especially in a service-oriented industry like ours, is the backbone of that institution. The Class I Officers are crucial to the success of our institution. The various justified & pending demands of the Class I Officers need to be addressed quickly to boost their morale.

        Of-late, the Corporation has indeed considered our long-standing demands like the Preventive Health Check-up scheme, Mobile re-imbursement etc. We thank the management for the same. However, there are many issues which still remain to be resolved. Some of these issues can be resolved immediately. Following are the issues:-

  1. Discussions on wage-revision: - The wage-revision is due since 1st August 2012. NOINO has already submitted its charter of demands on 23rd July 2012. We demand that the discussions should start immediately.
  2. One more option for pension: - This issue is pending since long. We have raised this issue several times earlier. We urge you to solve this issue at the earliest. We also re-iterate that this issue should be solved before & outside our Charter settlement.
  3. Recruitment of Class III employees: - We have been demanding that Class III employees should be recruited on a massive scale. This would reduce the burden on the Class I Officers who have to per-force perform non-supervisory work. We also reiterate our earlier demand of recruiting Assistant-cum-cashiers to resolve the issues at the Cash counter, the brunt of which has to be faced by Class I Officer.
  4. Sabbatical leave to female employees: - NOINO had raised this demand last year on 17.3.2012. Since then, we have been regularly following up this issue. The Public Sector Banks have introduced this leave a year back, i.e. from 1.4.2012. We demand that this leave should be introduced without any further delay.
  5. Anomaly in fixation after grant of Computer Increment:- This issue has been raised several times by NOINO. The anomaly is so clear that there is no logic in denying justice to the affected employees. We have also brought to your notice that SBI had resolved this issue long back in 1996, when an identical anomaly occurred there. This injustice should be removed immediately & the affected employees should be granted one more increment or one more option for re-fixation.
  6. Revision in GSLI:- There has been no revision in GSLI since 19.9.2007. There should be no further delay in the revision.
  7. Granting of Metro status to Pune & considering Panvel as an agglomeration of Mumbai & treating it as “A” class city:- These issues too, need to be resolved immediately.
  8. Modification in the High cost treatment scheme:- We had raised this demand on 27.3.2012 & had demanded:- a) increase in the limits of re-imbursement to 20 lakhs b) Removal of condition of a fixed percentage of re-imbursement instead of full re-imbursement & c) Removal of condition of time restriction of 180 days for all diseases. We have been following up this issue regularly. Considering the rising cost of medical treatment, we demand that this issue should also be resolved forthwith.
  9. Restoration of NGI:- Though we were not part of it, but, in the interest of Class-I community as a whole, we demand the restoration of NGI against the strike dated 18th February 2010.
We request you to consider all the above demands at the earliest.

Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
Anagha Sant
GS, NOINO

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