FBR Staff Threatens To Observe Pen Down Strike.

The employees of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) have threatened to observe a pen down strike for an indefinite period if the government does not fulfill their demands including provision of special revenue allowance, special fuel/conveyance allowance and de-freezing their IJP allowance in the recently announced budget.

The FBR's employees have written a letter to Senate Finance Committee for de-freezing their IJP allowance. They stated that government has once again rejected the FBR's employees' demand of de-freezing IJP allowance, which was distressing for them. 'The longstanding demand of de-freezing of the IJP allowance was once again overlooked. It is stated with deep regret that the employees of other departments of the federal government which include FIA, IB, Islamabad Capital Police and the latest being the Federal Secretariat have been awarded huge remunerations in the form of different allowances,' the letter stated.

In the light of above, the employees of the FBR presented the demands to do away the disparity as far as the salaries and emoluments are concerned. The demands included provision of special revenue allowance to officers of FBR (BPS 17-22) keeping in view FBR's efforts in revenue collection, special fuel/conveyance allowance to officers (BPS 17 to 19) keeping in view the recent hike in fuel prices and de-freezing of IJP allowance of BPS 01-16 or provision of 100% of the basic salary by discontinuing the existing frozen IJP allowance.

It is to mention here that the employees of FBR put in their maximum efforts to meet the huge revenue targets being assigned to them...