GRATUITY AMENDMENT BILL PROPOSED TO BE INTRODUCED THIRD TIME since last monday, TODAY IN LOK SABHA > LOK SABHA___
REVISED LIST OF BUSINESS
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 / Phalguna 16, 1939 (Saka) LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS
Bills for consideration and passing
The Payment
of Gratuity
(Amendment)
Bill, 2017.
10. SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR to move
that the Bill further to amend the Payment of Gratuity
Act, 1972, be taken into consideration.
(Amendments printed on separate lists to be moved)
ALSO to move that the Bill be passed
============================================================= TWISTS WITH DESTINY > recently it is circulated in social media - whatsapp facebook emails twitter - that UNION CABINET HAS APPROVED GRATUITY CEILING TO RS.20 LAKHS FOR PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR AND ALSO WITH RETROSPECTIVE EFFECT FROM 1.1.2016
> BUT THE GRATUITY AMENDMENT BILL CONVEYS DIFFERENTLY GIVING DOUBLE THAMAKA DISCRETION TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT ON THESE TWO POINTS
> GIST OF / RELEVANT PORTIONS OF THE BILL AS REQUESTED BY some googlegroups.com retirees >>> THE PAYMENT OF GRATUITY (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2017 A BILL further to amend the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
3. The provisions contained in the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 for Central Government employees with regard to gratuity are similar to the provisions contained in the Act. After implementation of the 7th Central Pay Commission, the ceiling of gratuity for Central Government employees has been enhanced from rupees ten lakhs to rupees twenty lakhs. In the past, the ceiling amount of gratuity under the Act has followed the Central Pay Commission recommendations. Therefore, considering the inflation and wage increase even in case of employees engaged in private and public sector, the entitlement of gratuity is also required to be revised for employees who are covered under the Act. It has also been proposed to empower the Central Government to notify the ceiling proposed, instead of amending the said Act, so that the limit can be revised from time to time keeping in view the increase in wage and inflation, and future Pay Commissions.
4. The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2017, inter alia, proposes to amend—
(a) section 2A of the Act so as to empower the Central Government to notify the period of maternity leave in case of female employee as deemed to be in continuous service in place of existing twelve weeks;
(b) section 4 of the Act to substitute the words "ten lakh rupees" with the words "such amount as may be notified by the Central Government from time to time".
5. The Bill seeks to achieve the above objects.
NEW DELHI; SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR
Dated, the 23rd October, 2017.
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WHEN UNION CABINET APPROVED WHY NOT SO SPECIFIC WITH REGARD TO EFFECTIVE DATE AND CEILING AMOUNT IN THE AMENDMENT BILL BUT TO THE CONTRARY GIVING DOUBLE DHAMAKA DISCRETION TO GOVERNMENT. - MANY RETIREES PUZZLED
VBV RAMESH
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