No vax certificate, no pay: Govt

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 22

The state government today said the employees would have to give details of their vaccination against Covid for being paid their salary.

In a letter issued today, by the state Finance Department, the government has asked its 3.50 lakh staff to produce their vaccination certificates and upload them on the Integrated Human Resource Management System portal for the employees.

These certificates are to be uploaded on the iHRMS portal, which streamlines the release of salary to all employees. Instructions regarding the same have been issued to all heads of departments and senior officials in the state government. Employees have been asked to upload the certificate, even if they have received a single dose of the vaccine.

“The vaccination certificate number has been linked to the salary module. In case the employees do not give their certificate number, their salary will not be calculated and accounted for,” say the directions.

It may be noted that though there isn’t a huge spike in number of Covid cases, the number of active cases in the state has remained almost steady at around 300 for almost a month. Today, the number of active cases was 305, with 52 new cases. The positivity rate in Punjab is 0.21 per cent.