This refers to the report, “Pay panel suggests 23.55% salary hike” (November 20). It is the public servants who are the most pampered lot. Work or no work, life-long security of service is assured. Moreover, periodically, the employer feels obliged to revise their pay scale.
Weak attempts to link pay rises to performance by past Pay Commissions have floundered on the bedrock of political opportunism and blackmail of the employees’ unions. Nor has any Government succeeded in enforcing the recommendation to rationalise the staff strength while hiking compensation.
The point is simple: The ‘give’ on part of the employer is mandatory but anything ‘in return’ from the employees is always illusory.