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Govt employees to chart next course of action as talks on pay scale fail

By Staff Correspondent
Lower level government employees will hold consultations among themselves to chart their next course of action following unsuccessful talks between their leaders and an official at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on the new pay scale on Sunday.
Leaders of the Sachibalaya Karmachari Samity and Class Four Employees' Association held the talks with Abu Alam Khan Shahid, a director at the PMO. sources in the employees' associations said.
He along with two other officials at the PMO tried to cool down the employees last week when they staged demonstrations kt the Secretariat protesting the new pay scale.
They were invited for talks with him last week. But the meeting was deferred until Sunday. Insiders said that the employees expressed their grievances about the new pay scale, saying it failed to benefit them as most are in their mid or late stages of service because there had been no fresh recruitments in recent times.
The employees leaders were told by the official that it was
not possible to raise their pay beyond what had been announced now. If the government's allocated fund of Tk 700 crore spins any surplus, the auestion could be considered.
le sources said.
He also brushed aside their demands for raising the tiffin allowance of Tk 100 per month to Tk 200 or revert to the old office hours.
The sources said that employees' leaders expressed their disapproval of the government’s claim that the new pay scale had more than compensated the inflation by 27 per cent. They mentioned the cost of living since 1991 had Increased by 30 per cent not 18 per cent as claimed by the government. However, the official promised to meet them again, the sources said.
A meeting of the employees was held at the Secretariat yesterday. "We briefed our members on the talks we had with an official at the PMO and the possible next course of action.” President of Sachibalaya Kar-machari Samity Zafar Ahmed told The Daily Star.
He said the employees' leaders would hold consultations with members in all the 46 ministries to decide their next course of action.
Meanwhile, the Coordination Council of Bangladesh Government Employees, representing class three and four employees have announced sit-in programme at the premises of the offices of divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners and thana nirbahl offices on October 20.
The programme has been taken up for a revision of the pay scale. They will also stage protests on October 25 and announce the next course of action, president of the organisation Salehuddin Selim told newsmen on Saturday. He said the pay scale ignored thousands of low paid employees.