Strange New Year's Day gift to Central staff

Happy New Year's Day! The Central government wished its staff and agreed on the day to implement the Seventh Pay Commission wage recommendations. Whenever the new sclaes were implemented, these would be applicable to only those who had attended duties on New Year's Day. The wage revision was made conditional to the employee having attended duties on January 1, 2016, only. Supposing the employee had taken a day off considering its New Year's Day, his pay revision would start on January 2. If an employee had gone on leave and joined duties after the leave period was over, his wage revision would be effective from the date of his resuming duties. The directive sounds funny and that is what has happened. It is the mutual agreement between the Central government and the employees. Not only that those employees who did not attend duties on Friday would forgo wages for the day and risk stagnation as compared to employees who did their duties on the compulsory day. New Year is, therefore, welcome to Central staff, provided they had done their duty on that day and not taken leave.