(THE GIST OF PIB) Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM)

(AUGUST-2024)

Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM)

For the first time in the last 10 years, the Prime Minister will meet the staff representatives in the national-level Joint Consultative Mechanism (JCM) of the Union government employees and the Personnel Ministry.

About Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM):

It is a platform for constructive dialogue between the representatives of the staff side and the official side for peaceful resolution of all disputes between the Government as employer and the employees.
The scheme was introduced in 1966 with the objectives of promoting harmonious relations and securing the greatest measure of cooperation between the Central Government as the employer and the employees.
The scheme is a non-statutory one mutually agreed upon between the staff side and the official side.

The scheme covers all regular civil employees of the Central Government, except:

The Class-I services;
The Class-II services, other than the Central Secretariat Services and the other comparable services in the headquarters organization of the Government;
Persons in industrial establishments employed mainly in managerial or administrative capacity, and those who are being employed in supervisory capacity drawing salary going beyond grade pay of Rs.4200/- per month;
Employees of the Union Territories;
Police personnel.