The India Bank Association (IBA) will meet on Saturday a core group for officers proposed by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), as part of ongoing wage negotiations.
S.K. Kakkar, Senior Advisor, Human Resources and Industrial Relations, IBA, said this in a letter to the UFBU leadership. The previous meeting of the IBA core group (officers) was held on August 1.
OTHER BANK EMPLOYEES
Meanwhile, the IBA sub-committee negotiating wages for staff other than officers had met with representatives of five unions on September 6 in Mumbai.
The IBA side was represented by Rakesh Sharma (MD & CEO, Canara Bank), Chairman of the sub-committee.
The meeting took into account a number of the demands listed but proved inconclusive. The next meeting is slated to be held on October 3.
Among the demands were additional casual leave for physically challenged employees; accumulation of privilege leave of up to 300 days and encashmnent; improvement in sick leave benefits; relook at maternity and paternity leave; sick leave for lady staff when children fall ill; case for child care leave; handling absence during curfew and other exigencies; leave bank system; simplified overtime wage calculation; and problems on the NPS front.
AIBEA OUTREACH
The All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA), one of the five unions, is offering a helping hand to banking job aspirants, as part of an outreach initiative.
This is aimed at benefitting "deserving candidates constrained by inadequate financial background" who want to sit for the IBPS recruitment examination.
AIBEA will provide them study material free of cost as also online test papers, C.H. Venkatachalam, General Secretary, said.
AIBEA has demanded recruitment to ensure adequate staff and, thus, open up opportunities for young educated persons to get employment in banks.
“In recent years, a large number of candidates have started appearing in the IBPS examinations. Among them are highly qualified hands, making the examination competitive."
STUDY MATERIAL
AIBEA is aware that a number of training institutes have come up to train the candidates but collect heavy amounts in fees.
It would now like to reach out to those who do not have the resources to attend these coaching centres. To start with, AIBEA would supply books/ material to about 3,000 candidates.
All of them will be provided a book each, free of cost, dealing with topics such as reasoning, general knowledge, numerical ability and English.
They will also be allowed access (through AIBEA’s website) to online model tests. Details will be announced shortly, Venkatachalam added.