Haryana Government has decided that payment of wages and other benefits to the persons engaged through agency under part-I of its outsourcing policy will be made in cashless mode.
The outsourcing policy of the State Government is chalked out in two parts. Under part I of outsourcing policy, it shall be the responsibility of respective department to ensure that the service providing agency would pay minimum wages to the persons appointed against un-skilled, semi-skilled, skilled and high skilled posts.
As per part I of policy, the services/activities may be outsourced as and when required partly or completely by the departments, where posts have not been sanctioned, for instance, cleaning of premises, horticultural work etc.
An official spokesman said that the agency would make payment of wages and other benefits like ESI and EPF to persons engaged in departments, boards, corporations and local bodies through cashless mode such as RTGS and electronic wallets. The payment would not be made either by cheque, cash or bank draft.
He said that the government had already enhanced the wages or honorarium of contractual or outsourced persons engaged under part-I of outsourcing policy by 14.29 per cent with effect from January 1, 2016.
An unskilled person who was initially paid Rs 8,100 per month is now getting Rs 9,258 per month. Similarly, a semi-skilled person is getting Rs 10,286 instead of Rs 9,000 per month.
Monthly wages of skilled persons and highly skilled persons has been raised to Rs 11,429 and Rs 12,572, instead of earlier Rs 10,000 and Rs 11000 respectively, added he.
Meanwhile, in a separate order, the State Government has also clarified that services of only those employees of Group B, C and D can be considered for regularization, which are eligible under the policies issued by the government on July 29, 2011.
The official spokesman said that all the Administrative Secretaries, Head of Departments, Divisional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners, Registrar of Punjab and Haryana High Court, Managing Directors of the Boards and Corporations and the Registrars of State Universities have been instructed to follow the instructions issued by the State Government.
The government had issued two policies for group B, C and D employees on July 29, 2011 to regularize the staff appointed or engaged on adhoc or contract or work charged or daily wage basis. He clarified that these two policies to regularize the employees are still in existence and in operation; there is no stay of any court on these policies.
The regularization policies issued on or after June 16, 2014 have been stayed by High Court. In compliance of the court orders, a circular was issued on September 15, 2016 vide which it was notified that no further regularization of services of employees be made under the regularization policies issued on or after June 16, 2014 till the decision of the court, added the spokesman.