Coal India, trade unions awaiting govt's nod on 19pc wage hike pact

Coal India Ltd (CIL) and trade unions are awaiting the government's approval for a wage agreement that recommends a 19 per cent minimum guaranteed benefit to 2.38 lakh non-executive employees of the miner, the officials said on Tuesday. CIL and four central trade unions - BMS, HMS, AITUC and CITU - had on January 3 inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) as part of the ongoing National Coal Wage Agreement -XI.

"The wage hike recommendation is now with the Department of Public Enterprises for its approval," All India Coal Workers' Federation (AICWF) General Secretary D D Ramanandan told PTI.

The Department of Public Enterprises is under the Ministry of Finance.


A CIL official also confirmed that "the new wage recommendation has been forwarded to the government for its approval".