Tag: Salaries

LHC stays Rs 4,000 deduction from teachers’ salaries

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday issued a stay order against the monthly deduction of Rs 4,000 as ad-hoc relief fund from salaries...

15,000 BECS teachers clamour for salaries

Despite the release of Rs 794 million for the payment of pending salaries, more than 15,000 teachers attached with Basic Education Community Schools (BECS)...

Private schools not paying salaries during summer vacation

The teachers working in private academic institutions have not been paid their salaries for the three-month summer vacation, which started in June. The teachers affiliated...

Punjab govt delays salaries, pensions

Punjab government has delayed the salaries and pensions of its employees with special permission of Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif, sources told Pakistan...

NCHD employees demand early release of salaries.

Dozens of employees of schools run by National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) in the Mirpurkhas district held a demonstration in front of the...

Low salaries and no benefits adding to woes of security guards

Lack of insurance cover and low salaries are contributing to the hardships of private security guards as security companies are just making money instead...

President directs economic team to increase govt employees’ salaries in budget

President Asif Ali Zardari has directed government’s economic team to evolve poor friendly budget besides providing relief to government employees through increase in their...

KESC ordered to pay salaries to ex-workers within 15 days

The Sindh High Court on Monday reserved its verdict on three identical petitions filed by Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC)’s 249 officers against their...

‘Double WAPDA employees’ salaries’

The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Paigaam Union (PU) on Thursday took out a rally from WAPDA House to Punjab Assembly Hall against...

Govt. unlikely to increase salaries in next budget: Fauzia Wahab

Fauzia Wahab, chairperson of National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance, has said that there is no possibility of pay raise in the next fiscal...

No salaries to CDAs for 8 months

SIALKOT - All the cluster development agents (CDAs) in Sialkot have been deprived of their monthly salaries for the eight months owing to the alleged slackness of the officials of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP).
The affected CDAs told newsmen that they had been working as cluster development agents (CDAs) to boost the Sialkot exports through networking for the last three years under the supervision of Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) in active

MCB raises staff salaries

LAHORE - To help employees overcome the increasing cost of living, MCB has increased salaries for its permanent clerical staff and guards by 17 percent, in addition to an increment to various allowances. This was announced in a press release issued today. Besides the increase in salaries and allowances, various grants for marriage, funeral, children scholarship and maternity charges have also been enhanced. The threshold of entitlement for loans including advance salary, house loan

Hefty salaries, perks and privileges not gratifying enough…

KARACHI - In addition to receiving hefty salaries, perks and privileges, senior officers in the Port Qasim Authority (PQA) are being reimbursed heavy medical bills almost every month without the mandatory doctor's prescription, causing annual losses worth millions of rupees to the national exchequer, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The chairman, director generals and those who are appointed on deputation are entitled medical treatment on the basis of terms and conditions approved by

WASA staff’s protest for raise in salaries continues

HAFIZABAD - The protest of Water Management Department's employees, demanding increase in their salaries, entered the 8th day. The joint action committee leaders, Zafar Iqbal, Mazaffar Siddique and Amir Shahzad said the government was neither regularising employees nor was it raising their salaries though highly educated engineers, agriculture experts, sub-engineers and computer programmers, serving in the department.
They added that 2,200 families of these employees were facing

Salaries of more than 60 doctors stopped

LAHORE - The district coordination officers (DCO) of Sheikhupura and Narowal have stopped the salaries of more than 60 doctors in violation of orders of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. These doctors were working in government teaching hospitals, after being recruited by the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) in 2010 on regular basis and denied salaries for the last three months.
These doctors had been adjusted for pay purpose in Narowal and Sheikhupura on those vacant

CII forms body to oversee salaries of devolved ministries’ employees

ISLAMABAD - The Council of Common Interest (CCI) on Tuesday formed a committee headed by secretary finance to devise mechanism for payment of salaries to the employees of all the ministries devolved to the provinces. Finance Secretary Dr Waqar Masood told journalists that the committee was constituted to workout financial impact in terms of salaries of the employees.
He said the issue of subsidy on agricultural tube wells as well as privatization of generation and distribution

LHC directs Railways to pay salaries of legal advisers

LAHORE - Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court Tuesday directed Pakistan Railways authorities to pay by February 14 salaries of its legal advisers, outstanding for the last month. On the petition of advocate, Arshad Virk, the court warned the Railyways high ups against holding back salaries of grade 17 to Grade 22 officers upon paying the respondents on the said date.
An executive officer of the department assured the court of paying the legal advisers by that said