Officers of state-owned oil firms suspended for three weeks their plan to launch an indefinite strike from Tuesday, claiming that a categorical assurance was given by the government to consider their demands relating to higher wages.
NEW DELHI: Officers of state-owned oil firms suspended for three weeks their plan to launch an indefinite strike from Tuesday, claiming that a categorical assurance was given by the government to consider their demands relating to higher wages.
"We have been given a categorical assurance by the (Petroleum) Ministry that the issues would be resolved within three weeks and hence the decision to defer the strike," Oil Sector Officers' Association Convener Ashok Singh said.
He said the association found the government's offer "reasonably good" and they considered Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's appeal not to resort to agitation and his in-principle approval to setting up of a wage revision committee.
The decision to drop the strike plan came at a two hour meeting of the association that ended well past midnight.
The employees were demanding periodic pay revisions every five years, 100 per cent dearness allowance neutralization with effect from January 1, 1996, 50 per cent DA merger and immediate release of additional stagnation increments.
They are also seeking an entry-level salary of Rs 50,000 per month (from Rs 20,000 per month) for management trainees and commensurate rise in emoluments at senior levels.
"Whatever action was possible at the level of oil public sector units relating to additional performance related payment within the guidelines of Department of Public Enterprises has been taken," Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said late on Monday night.
"Other demands such as 50 per cent dearness allowance merger and pay revision every five years were referred to Department of Public Enterprises, which was examining them in the larger context of all public sector enterprises," he said.
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