Decision Copy February 2014 of 20% Special Relief Allowance for All FG Employees

The Islamabad High Court has again issued the orders on 4^th February 2014 in connection with the 20% Special Relief Allowance 2013 to all the Federal Govt Employees and the deadline has been given till 28-02-2014. Some points of this decision are as under:

Official in attendant submit that the summary with regard to Special Allowance @ 20% was submitted to the Honourable Prime Minister for approval and there were certain quarries, however after answering the same summary has been again submitted to the Honourable PM for taking final decision about the matter. Further submit that they are not in position to tell any specific date for the approval of the summary, however showed their expectance that the same will be returned within three weeks. Officials in attendant are directed to submit follow up letter in terms of order passed by this court so that this issue may be settled as the employees of different departments are lurking in the arena of uncertainty since long and approaching the court time and again. It is expected that the authority shall take the final decision by the end of this month i.e 28-02-2014.

In view of the matter, it is held that all the Federal Govt Employees and the employees of other allied departments are equally entitled to 20% special allowance which has been given to the employees mentioned in the Notification.

This post has been delivered by Mr. Azmat Ullah Yousufzai, Administration Directorate Main Office, National University of Science and Technology (NUST).