Bank's workmen Union met IBA for one
more round of discussions on 14.11.2017 in IBA Office at Mumbai.
- Simplified formula
for calculation of overtime wages.
Unions submitted their views and the issue would be discussed further.
- On the issue of
introduction of Leave Bank providing for voluntary contribution of leave by the
employees to a common pool and utilisation of the same for sanctioning leave to
those employees who suffer from major diseases and prolonged illness and have
not leave to their credit, Unions submitted their Note containing their views
and explained their proposal. It was
decided to discuss the issue further.
- On our demands like
Child Care Leave for women employees, Sabbatical Leave, Study Leave, etc., it
was agreed that Unions would submit a Note for further discussion.
During the meeting the following demands were discussed :
i.
For claiming travelling expenses for
defending an employee in the departmental action, existing restrictions of
‘within the state’ be removed.
- Subsistence Allowance to be improved upon.
- Indiscriminate usage of Clause 5(j) to be stopped through proper
guidelines / definition.
- Clarification with regard to provision of Clause 6(e) i.e.
bringing down by two stages in the scale of pay and applicability of the
same to employees who have already reached maximum in the scale of pay.
- Clarification to be given that minor
misconducts clearly enumerated under Clause 7 of BPS dated 10.04.2002
should not be brought as major misconducted under Clause 5.
- Multiple charges for one incident should not be made out.
- Punishment order by the Disciplinary Authority not to be
implemented till the final disposal of Appeal by the Appellate Authority.
- Issuance of charge sheet under Pension Regulation to Award Staff
after retirement to be stopped since it is not provided in Bipartite
Settlement.
- Awarding the punishment of stoppage of increments should be without affecting superannuation benefits, as in the case of Officers.
- Provision for appeal against suspension.
- In case of punishment of dismissals, a provision for Review Authority after Appellate Authority.
- Deletion of Fine as a punishment.
IBA’s
Sub-Committee was represented by Mr.Rakesh Sharma (MD, Canara Bank and Chairman
of the Sub-Committee), Mr.V.G. Kannan(Chief Executive, IBA), Mr.B. Raj Kumar(Dy
Chief Executive, IBA), Mr.M.K Gupta(GM,
Bank of India), Mr.Punit Jain(GM, PNB), Mr.T.S Seshadri(GM, Indian Bank), Mr.S.K
Kakkar(Sr. Advisor, HR&IR, IBA) and Mr.K.S Chauhan(Advisor, IBA).
Workmen Union Team was represented by Com.C.H. Venkatachalam and Com.B.S. Rambabu(AIBEA),
Com.S.K Bandlish and Com.Vinil Saxena(NCBE), Com.Pradip Biswas(BEFI), Com.Subhash
Sawant(INBEF) and Com.Upendrakumar(NOBW),