Labour Laws Applicable to Casual and Self Employed Work Force

Reliable estimates of employment and unemployment are obtained through quinquennial labour force surveys conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). Last such quinquennial labour force survey was conducted during 2009-10. As per results of the most recent survey, 15.6 per cent, 33.5 per cent and 51.0 per cent of the total work force on usual status basis was found to be engaged in regular wage/salaried work, casual labour and self employment respectively during 2009-10. The Central labour laws applicable for the casual labour in the country are broadly The Minimum Wages Act, 1948, The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976, The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979, The Contract Labour (Regulation and abolition) Act, 1970, The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 and The Unorganized Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008. The Minister of State for Labour & Employment Shri K. Suresh gave this information in reply to a written question in the Lok Sabha today . Source: PIB

Promotions to the cadre of LSG APM Accounts (Postal) in AP Circle

Promotions to the cadre of LSG APM Accounts (Postal) in AP Circle

The following Postal Assistants have been promoted to the cadre of LSG APM Accounts (Postal) in the pay scale of Rs.5200 – 20200 with GP Rs.2800/-  and are allotted to the Region / Division noted against their names vide Circle Office Hyderabad memo no ST/6-3(APM Accounts)/DPC Dlgs/2012 dated 21.12.2012.

S.No.	Name of the official	Community	Region / HCR Dn			Allotted to
1	D.V.Ramanamma		Vijayawada		Vijayawada
2	B.Satyanarayana		Vijayawada		Vijayawada
3	Zeenath Begum		Hyderabad South East		Hyderabad South East
4	Md. Nazeer Basha		Vijayawada		Vijayawada
5	K.Krishnaiah		Hyderabad City Dn		Hyderabad City Dn
6	D. Usha Kiran	ST	Hyderabad South East		Hyderabad GPO
7	Ch. Padmamma,		Vijayawada		Vijayawada
8	K.Bhagyalaxmi		Visakhapatnam		Visakhapatnam
9	T.V. Lakshmi Devi		Visakhapatnam		Visakhapatnam
10	E.Vara Lakshmi		Kurnool		Kurnool
11	K.Narayana Rao		Visakhapatnam		Visakhapatnam
12	K. Surya Narayana Murthy		Visakhapatnam		Visakhapatnam
13	P.Sudhakar		Vijayawada		Vijayawada
14	M.Madhu Sudhan Reddy		Hyderabad		Hyderabad
15	K.Padmavathi		Hyderabad South East		Hyderabad GPO
16	P.Laxmana Murthy		Visakhapatnam		Visakhapatnam
17	M.Ram Chander Rao		Vijayawada		Vijayawada
18	V.V. Surekha		Vijayawada		Vijayawada
19	CSV Ramana Murthy		Visakhapatnam		Visakhapatnam
20	Y.Revathi		Secunderabad		Hyderabad
21	N. Sivaramaiah		Vijayawada		Vijayawada
22	G.Suryanarayana		Vijayawada		Vijayawada
23	Syed Begum		Vijayawada		Vijayawada
24	C.Ravinder Reddy		Hyderabad		Hyderabad
25	D.Sudhakar Reddy		Kurnool		Kurnool
26	CH. Subba Ramaiah		Vijayawada		Vishakapatnam
27	V.Venkata Subbaiah		Vijayawada		Vishakapatnam
28	G.Venkata Rao		Vijayawada		Kurnool
29	K.Laxmi		Hyderabad City Dn		Hyderabad
30	T.Venakteswara Rao		Visakhapatnam		Vishakapatnam
31	D.Venkata Swamy	SC	Kurnool		Kurnool
32	K.Tirupati Rao	SC	Visakhapatnam		Vishakapatnam
33	G.Venkayamma	SC	Vijayawada		Kurnool
34	A. Sri Lakshmi	SC	Vijayawada		Kurnool
35	V.Vijaya Lakshmi	SC	Kurnool		Kurnool
36	K.G. Parasuramulu	SC	Kurnool		Kurnool
37	N.Manjula Kavitha	SC	Hyderabad City Dn		Hyderabad
38	G.Gangadhar	SC	Hyderabad		Hyderabad.

Revision of Instant Money order tariff w.e.f 22.12.2012

Revision of Instant Money order tariff w.e.f 22.12.2012

Postal directorate has revised the Instant Money Order Tariff with effect from 22.12.2012 vide Letter No.95-02/2012-FS dated 19th December, 2012.

The revised Tariff is as follows :

Remittance Slab	Revised Tariff
Rs 1000 -  10,000	Rs 100/-
Rs 10,001 – 30,000	Rs 110/-
Rs 30,001 – 50,000	Rs 120/-

Click here to view the Directorate letter in original.

PART-TIME, CONTINGENT & CONTRACT WORKERS FEDERATION DHARNA AT DAK BHAWAN

PART-TIME, CONTINGENT & CONTRACT WORKERS FEDERATION DHARNA AT DAK BHAWAN

One day mass hunger fast was conducted in front of the Dak Bhawan by the All India Postal Casual, Part-time, Contingent & Contract workers Federation under the banner of NFPE on 19.12.2012 protesting against the abnormal delay in revision of wages of the casual labourers at par with the minimum revised pay of the Central Government employees w.e.f. 01.01.2006 and also regularization of their services. More than one hundred Part–Time Casual labours participated. Com. M. Krishnan Secretary General NFPE inaugurated the Dharna and elaborately spoke on Part Time Casual Labourers Committee Report and present developments in the Department of Posts. Coms. R. Sivannarayana G/S P-III, I. S. Dabas G/S P-IV, Giri Raj Singh G/S R-III, T. Satyanaryan G/S Postal Accounts, P.Mohan G/S Part Time Casual labour, Com. Balwinder Singh, Financial Secretary P-III, Jagdish Prasad Treasurer R-III, K.P.Singh AGS R-III, A.K. Gautam offg. C/S R-III and other leaders addressed the Dharna.