IFFCO, Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative altogether has its different way of working. IFFCO indeed is a cooperative with a difference and it showed it lately when it revised the wages of its employees keeping PSUs’ benchmark in sight. A whooping, 5500 employees and officers have received a hike of 20 per cent, which in practical terms would mean almost the double of their compensation.
“The new year comes with a new pay scale. A new celebration erupted in IFFCO with this announcement. This is the 4th pay revision under Dr Awasthi in the last 25 years. And in all these years there has been no dispute between management and unions & associations of IFFCO. Long live IFFCO and long live Dr Awasthi.” said, Union leaders Jitendra Tiwary.
Jitendra Tiwary, President of Officers’ Union further added “MD Dr U S Awasthi values workforce and get them their due both in terms of money and respect. And the nitty-gritty of working out this revision and taking it to its logical conclusion goes to our HR Head R P Singh.”
According to sources, the new wage is effective from January 1, 2018 thereby bringing with it some arrears. Other than some navratan PSUs such as GAIL, Oil India, NTPC and some others, none has implemented the latest benchmark of wage revision as done by IFFCO.
The IFFCO management and unions-of both officers’ and workmen signed an agreement recently wherein not only the quantum of wage-revision but also the time period of 10 years was finalized.
The maximum wage that was possible under the law. Companies which have earned profit for three consecutive years can revise wage and can give up to 20 percent of their average profits towards wage-hike.”
“In a way, we are ahead of Navratan PSUs as in just one go we have covered everybody-from officers to workers while in navaratan companies workers are still struggling at the negotiating tables while top officers have already got them”, Singh underlined.
Explaining in detail the new salary structure, Union President Jitendra Tiwary said ”If your salary is Rs 10 thousand basic then add 119% DA into it; it becomes Rs 21,000 and then add a hike of 15%; also add perks worth 35% to it. The net salary is almost double. It’s a bonanza for us”, he was emphatic.
The top PSUs being the benchmark for the growth of IFFCO, R P Singh mentioned wage revision will cause IFFCO to incur an additional financial burden of Rs 200 crore per annum.
IFFCO MD posted a photograph along with his comment “#IFFCO always gives priority to its pillars of solidarity consisting of #farmers, #cooperatives & it’s #employees. #IFFCO management & its recognised Unions & Associations reached an understanding to revise pay scales & allowances for its employees for 10 years from 1st Jan18.”
