Contractual Workers

For the regularisation of 12,000 contractual employees, Rs 800 crore has been allocated in the MCD budget to cover their salaries. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) special meeting, held on Wednesday to finalise the budget for 2024-25 and the next financial year, began in chaos as AAP and BJP councillors stood on tables and chairs, shouting slogans against each other. The House saw the passage of the Revised Budget Estimates for 2024-25 and the Budget Estimates for 2025-26 amid uproar. Several key proposals were rejected, while others were passed, including the allocation of Rs 800 crore for the regularisation of 12,000 contractual employees to cover their salaries. Following this, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convener Arvind Kejriwal took to X, saying, "Big news for the 12,000 temporary employees of the Delhi Municipal Corporation. "The Aam Aadmi Party government in the corporation has allocated Rs 800 crore in the budget, fulfilling their long-pending demand. Now, all t

The Central government ministries or departments engage contractual services as per their requirement after completing all necessary procedural formalities, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. The government's response came on a question "whether any rule has been framed or guidelines issued by DoPT (Department of Personnel and Training) for appointments in central government's ministries/departments, institutions and PSUs etc. on contractual basis". "The government posts are filled up in accordance with the recruitment rules. However, keeping in view the administrative exigency of work, efficiency and economy of operations and unavoidable circumstances, contractual appointments and outsourcing for services is also sometimes resorted to," Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said in a written reply. The ministries/departments as per their requirement engage contractual services after completing all necessary procedural formalities, he said. In a separate reply

Businesses opting for flexible employment models to manage costs, it says

The Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday decided to give government employee status to around 3.5 lakh contractual (Niyojit) teachers, teaching in different government-run schools in the state, an official said. The decision to this effect was taken in the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. "Immediately after notification by the state government in this regard, these contractual teachers, teaching in different state-run schools for the last several years, will be considered as 'exclusive teachers', with government employee status. A proposal in this regard was mooted by the state Education department before the cabinet on Tuesday, which was later approved", S Siddharth, Additional Chief Secretary (Cabinet Secretariat), told reporters after the cabinet meeting. While elaborating on the process of the newly approved policy, Siddharth said, "These exclusive teachers will have to clear competency examinations for continuing the status of a government employee. Clearing competen

The government also decided that the benefit of the National Pension Scheme (NPS) will be given to all the employees. So that after retirement, they can live their life

A Punjab Cabinet sub-committee on Thursday assured employee unions that a majority of contractual employees in the state will be regularised soon, according to an official statement. The Cabinet sub-committee comprising Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema, Employment Generation Minister Aman Arora, Transport Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar, and Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh met with representatives of various employee unions and associations here, it said. "Majority of contractual employees to be regularised soon, cabinet sub-committee assures employees' unions," the statement added. Finance Minister Cheema informed the employee union representatives that the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann-led Punjab government has already notified a policy to regularise the services of employees having experience of 10 years. He said that the policy would help in regularising the services of the majority of contractual employees. The case of those not being covered under this

The Himachal Pradesh government will regularise the services of its contractual employees who have completed two years in March this year, a statement issued here on Sunday said. The state government has also decided to regularise services of the daily waged workers completing four years of service as of March 31, 2023, and September 30, 2023. Services of the contractual employees, who have completed two years of service as on March 31, 2023, would be regularised besides those who are due to complete two years of service by September 30, 2023, the statement said. Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said the present state government is committed to the welfare of the employees and has taken various measures to benefit its employees.

But headcount of regular employees has continued to decline in FY22

Contractors aren't being notified at all, they're just losing access to Slack and email. Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system, tweeted Platformer's Casey Newton

The Rajasthan government has revised the pay scale of more than 31,000 contractual workers, gram panchayat assistants, education workers and para teachers, Education Minister B D Kalla said. They will now get salary based on the length of their service period. "The pay scale of contractual workers, gram panchayat assistants, education workers and para teachers -- whose estimated number is 31,473 -- has been revised. They will now get a salary of Rs 18,500 after nine years of service and Rs 32,000 after 18 years of service," Kalla said in a tweet on Friday. He also shared a copy of the official order dated October 21. According to the order, these posts have been brought under the purview of 'Rajasthan Contractual Hiring to Civil Post Rules'. The designations of education workers, para teachers and gram panchayat assistants have been changed. Former minister and Congress legislator Harish Chaudhary dubbed the announcement a "Diwali gift" for the people from the state government. W

As a result, the ratio of temporary, contract and casual jobs as a proportion of the total workforce is at its lowest in at least five years

Report reveals that just 20% of fixed-term employment contracts are renewed

Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann said his government is committed to regularise temporary and contractual employees

One reason why the govt and associate entities are exploring contractual employment obviously is cost, and the other is productivity, notes T N Ninan

While the tribe of contractual workers is growing rapidly, many of the challenges they have been facing remain unaddressed

The Delhi government has asked the heads of all departments under it to ensure contractual or outsourced workers are paid bonus by their contractors during the ongoing festive season, officials said

Odisha government Monday decided to increase the remuneration of contractual government employees by 50 per cent and henceforth refer to them as Initial appointees

Growth to be led by demand for contractual staff, advanced technology skills

Lessons from the controversy over unpaid workers

Availability of jobs at India's auto companies has shrunk significantly over the last two years, as the industry goes through one of its worst slowdowns