Tribune News Service
Ravi S Singh
New Delhi, October 7
As many as 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) on Friday declared opposition to the Union authorities’s alleged strikes to weaken and harm the Public Sector Units (PSUs) with an intention to privatise them earlier than 2024.
The new flash level for the Unions’ ire in opposition to the federal government is its imposition of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) on Public Sector General Insurance Companies (PSGICS).
“It has been effected in an unilateral, unconstitutional and illegal way, severely affecting the health of the industry, the employees, agents, surveyors and the valuable customers, citizens as hundreds of offices are proposed to be closed / merged in the name of KPI / Restructuring,” the unions mentioned in a joint assertion with reference to these PSGICS.
These unions are INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF and UTUC.
They have additionally written a protest letter to Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on imposing KPI on the PSGICS, asking her to put it on maintain until views of all stakeholders within the matter are ascertained.
The unions’ pique will not be far to search. “After the Air India, Pawan Hans, LIC IPO and bank mergers, it is the turn of electricity sector and public sector general insurance companies,” they mentioned.
In a critique of the federal government’s reported move relating to PSGICS, they mentioned the Bell curve based mostly efficiency appraisal advised for efficiency evaluation of staff, has already been understood as a failure and discarded by main organizations globally, together with many huge multinational companies.
They additional mentioned that that is being finished on the recommendations of exterior consultants who barely perceive the intricacies concerned and issues which will come up if such a system is applied with out detailed understanding of the planning and a highway map.
These exterior consultants seem to have been notably tasked for outlined anti-PSU functions, they added.
The Unions are miffed that the method to implement KPI has been rolled out within the companies with out prior to adoption of the report by their Board of Companies, which, they mentioned, is unlawful and unconstitutional.
