1.
50% wages
for up to 3 months as unemployment relief
The relief is being offered under the Atal Beemit
Vyakti Kalyan Yojana to ESIC beneficiaries.
Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana or ABVKY, which was introduced in 2018, for a
trial period of two years, has now been extended till June, 2021. As
per the scheme, those registered under the Employees’ State Insurance
Corporation (ESIC) and had lost their jobs during the pandemic, can claim 50
per cent of their wages for up to three months as unemployment relief, even if
they have now started going to work. The relief will be paid from the ESIC’s
funds worth Rs 44, 000 crore. The scheme is offered as a welfare measure to
employees covered under Section 2(9) of the Emplyees’ State Insurance (ESI)
Act, 1948. It offers relief payment of up to three months (90 days), once in a
lifetime. Earlier, the rate of unemployment relief under the scheme was 25 per
cent, which has now been increased to 50 per cent. The relief shall be paid
after 30 days from the date of unemployment and the claim for the same can be
submitted directly to the relevant ESIC branch office. The official website of
the ESIC states that there is relaxation in eligibility conditions, “provided
the insured person should have been in insurable employment for a minimum
period of two years immediately before her/his unemployment and should have
contributed for not less than 78 days in the contribution period immediately
preceding to unemployment and minimum 78 days in one of the remaining three
contribution periods in two years prior to unemployment.
2.
Kerala to reserve 10%
govt jobs for financially backward
The
eligibility of the candidates for this quota, within the general category, will
be decided based on the income and the financial backwardness of their families.
The
Kerala cabinet has given its approval to reserve 10 per cent government jobs
for candidates from financially-backward families within the general category.
The move will not impact the present reservations for any other category. To
implement this reservation, changes will have to be made to the provisions in
the Kerala State and Subordinate Services Rules. Earlier, the government had
decided to roll out a 10 per cent reservation in jobs as well as in terms of
admissions in educational institutions for those belonging to the economically
backward sections within the unreserved category, according to the 103rd
Amendment to the Constitution and related notifications issued by the Central
Government. This was followed by the formation of a commission by the state
government to decide the bases for identifying economically backward sections
from amongst the forward communities.
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3.
Over Rs
17K Diwali bonus for 11 lakh Railway employees!
The employees will get
bonus equivalent to 78 days of wages for 2019-20. The
proposal by the Ministry of Railways to grant the productivity-linked bonus
(PLB) to its employees, as is the usual practice during Diwali, has been
approved by the Union Cabinet. All eligible non-gazetted employees of the
Railways, other than RPF and RPSF personnel, will receive a PLB equivalent to
78 days’ wages for 2019-2020. The disbursement of this PLB will cost the
exchequer Rs 2,081.64 crore. However, no employee can be paid more than Rs
17,951 for 78 days. The bonus is expected to bring cheer to the employees and
motivate them to work hard. This is also the Railway Ministry’s way of
acknowledging the efforts put in by its employees, especially for the smooth
running of the shramik special trains, and for those carrying foodgrains, coal
and other supplies, even during the lockdown.
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