11th BPS Update : Management Issues (10 Points)
ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION
Circular
No.7/VII/2017
June 5, 2017
Camp: Mumbai
TO
ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES
Comrades,
WAGE REVISION - SECOND ROUND.
EXCHANGE OF CHARTER OF
DEMANDS.
As
you aware that the owners are anxious to settle the wage
revision which
is due from 1.11.2017, and to achieve this goal there were
communications to the Bank managements time and again. Prior
to
Nationwide strike exclusively by Bankmen on 28th Feb, 2017,
officers'
organisations had submitted the broad summary on 20/02/2017
to IBA.
Following the submission, at Chennai, on 19th April, 2017, a
meeting was
held, in which, Com.Alok Khare, Com. M.A.Srinivasan, Com.
V.Ramabhadran
, Com.G.Gunasekaran and the undersigned participated in the
exercise.
It was the past practice to submit the Charter of demands of
officers
and workmen together, but, on 2nd May, 2017, it was not
possible.
In
the meanwhile, to fine tune the COD, once again, a meeting
was held on
1/06/2017 at INBOC office at MUMBAI, in which Com. Alok
Khare, Com.
V.Viswanathan and the undersigned participated.
IBA has invited
the negotiating unions for a discussion today at IBA office
to take the
wage talks further. Chairman of the IBA Negotiating Team,
Shri.R.K.Thakkar, (UCO) Smt. Usha Ananthasubramanian,
(Allahabad Bank),
Shri.Prashant Kumar (SBI), Shri.V.G.Kannan, CEO IBA,
Shri.Rajkumar
Dy.CEO, Shri.K.S.Chauhan Vice President HR & IR, besides
the members
of HR Dept of IBA. CEO, IBA initiated the proceedings of the
meeting
and handed over the forum to Chairman, Negotiating Team, for
taking the
discussion further.
After the exchange of the CODs by Officers and
Workmen organisations with IBA and the IBA handing their
list of
demands, Chairman Negotiating team expressed that the time
line
mentioned in the earlier meeting should be kept in mind,
present health
of Industry and also the negotiations for officers shall be
restricted
upto Scale III. He further placed the periodicity of meeting
will be
every month. While supplementing the views of IBA, Smt. Usha
Ananthasubramanian, emphasised that there should be a forward
movement
at the conclusion of the every meeting.
Reacting to the
observations made, representatives have expressed that the
expectations
of the workforce should be fully addressed, de-stressing of
the
workforce should be carried out, health of the industry is
not on
account of the wage cost, negotiations cannot be restricted
upto Scale
III, residual issues of last wage revision exercise to be
resolved viz.,
Regulated working hours, Discipline and Appeal Regulations,
Accountability Policy, 5 days a week, issues of retirees-
record note,
officer representatives in the Banks' boards, comparison of
wages with
Pay commission, unilateral introduction of service condition
by a bank,
Number of representatives to be allowed to participate in the
negotiation, protection from cyber-crime, and problems
encountered by
the employees in the Insurance backed hospitalisation scheme
etc. The
meeting lasted for nearly an hour. The representative of the
Officers'
organisations have handed over a letter addressed to Chairman
IBA
pertaining to the restriction stipulated by IBA.
MANAGEMENT ISSUES:
[1] C2C concept to be brought in;
[2] Rationalisation of Special Pay carrying posts.
[3] Review of the two graduation increments;
[4] Transfer and deployment of workmen staff;
[5] Simultaneous conduct of departmental and judicial
proceedings for workmen;
[6] Conducting the departmental proceedings after
retirement of workmen;
[7] Premature retirement of workmen;
[8] Outsourcing of any activity within the RBI
guidelines;
[9] Review of the automatic movement of officers from
Scale I to II and also Scale II to III ;
[10] To mark lien on NPS fund of employees to recover
loss to the Bank on account of their proved
misconduct.
UFBU
meet-Post discussion with IBA: Subsequently, the
representatives of
nine unions met and discussed the issues confronting the
Industry as
well as the collective approach on the wage revision. The
meeting lasted
for nearly 90 minutes with the decision to meet on a
mutually
convenient day for a detailed discussion to chalk out the
future course
of action to "Save the Banking Industry" and also "halt the
attacks on
jobs and job Security".
Awaiting for the forward movement for a collective, consensus
and also achievable plan of action.
Yours Comradely,
/S.NAGARAJAN/
GENERAL
SECRETARY
Source: http://www.aiboa.org/
