Dear
Comrades,
DISCUSSIONS
WITH IBA
Units and members are
aware that our charter of demands includes demands on improvement in various
service conditions apart from increase in wages. Prior to the signing of the Minutes of
Discussion on 23-2-2015, there were two rounds of discussions with the IBA on
these issues. Yesterday i.e., on
17.03.2015, one more round of discussions took place, during which
understandings have been reached on the following issues :
1) ENCASHMENT
OF LEAVE:
The benefit of encashment of Privilege Leave will be available even in the
cases of resignations from the Bank
after 20 years of service as well on loss
of job due to punishments (other than cases of punishment of Dismissal and
cases where there is loss to the Bank).
2) LEAVE: The present stipulation
that Casual Leave (CL) upto 4 days
can be availed continuously provided the total absence including Sundays and
holidays does not exceed more than 6 days would be deleted.
3) Presently Unavailed Casual Leave (UCL) can be availed
for a day without production of medical certificate. In
addition UCL may be availed without production of medical certificate for 4
days at a time once in a year or 2 days at a time twice in a year.
4) Privilege
Leave
(PL) can be availed on 4 occasions
in a year (as against 3 occasions at present).
5) 15
days’ Notice
would be sufficient to avail Privilege Leave
(as against 30 days’ notice at present).
6) Privilege
Leave
can be accumulated upto 270 days (as against the existing
ceiling of 240 days). However,
encashment upto 240 days would continue as at present.
7) Special
Sick Leave
with Salary for a maximum period of 30
days would be sanctioned to an employee while on hospitalisation for donation
of kidney or any organ.
8) Maternity
Leave,
within the overall entitlement, would be granted for 60 days (now 45 days) in the case of hysterectomy.
9) Maternity Leave for legal adoption of a child would be 6 months (now 2 months)
10)The above facility of
Maternity Leave would also be available to a biological mother in cases where the child is born through surrogacy.
11) Part
time employees
would also be entitled to Maternity Leave under (9) and (10) above.
12) Paternity
Leave
would be extended on the lines of Government employees i.e. 15 days at a time on 2 occasions.
13) Study
Leave
upto 2 years would be sanctioned to workmen employees as available to officers.
14) Sabbatical
Leave
for women employees would be extended on the lines of government guidelines.
15) Sabbatical
Leave
for male employees would be referred to the Government for consideration.
16) Extraordinary
Leave (without Pay)
would be sanctioned upto a max. of 720 days during the entire service (as
against the existing ceiling of 12 months).
17) Special
Casual Leave
for absence due to curfew would include exigencies like riots, prohibitory
orders, natural calamities.
18) Special
Leave for Sports activities,
trekking, mountaineering, etc, would be dealt with at each Bank level.
19) INTRODUCTION
OF LEAVE BANK:
System of Leave Bank would be introduced by which employees can voluntarily donate
a part of their entitled leave to a common pool from out of which leave with
salary would be sanctioned to employees who are compelled to be on prolonged
leave due to treatment of major diseases/accidents and other contingencies
beyond their control and where such employees have exhausted all their leave.
20) Diem
Allowance: Diem
Allowance payable while on travel on duty would be revised upwardly and quantum
would be finalised in the next meeting.
21) When employees travel on
duty to another station and stay in a hotel, the room rent would be reimbursed; the eligible rates would be
finalised in the next meeting.
22) Transportation
of goods while on transfer: An employee while on transfer from one
station to another can transport his
personal effects by train or road (even if the places are connected by
train) upto the stipulated weights by an IBA approved Transport Operator.
23)Compensation for
Breakages:
Compensation for losses due to breakages or damage to goods while transporting
would be reimbursed as under:
Existing
amount
|
To
be revised as
|
|||
Clerk
|
Substaff
|
Clerk
|
Substaff
|
|
On
production of receipt
|
1120
|
745
|
1500
|
1000
|
Without
receipt
|
745
|
560
|
1000
|
750
|
24)
Travel on Duty/on
transfer:
Existing
|
To
be revised as
|
|
Non-Subordinate
employees
|
1st class
|
AC 2 Tier
|
Sub-ordinate employees
|
2nd class
|
AC 3 tier
|
25) Dependents’
Income Criteria: Income limit to define a
dependent would be Rs. 10,000/- per
month (as against the existing Rs.3,500/- p.m.)
26) Pension
for part time employees:
The entire service period would be taken for arriving at eligible pension
instead of pro-rata service.
Important issues like
construction of revised Pay Scales, revised DA formula, HRA rates, Transport
Pay, introduction of Grade Pay, revision of Special Pay, LFC, revision in other
allowances, retirees’ issues, etc. and other issues/ demands would be taken up
for discussions in the subsequent rounds of meetings.
Further development on these issues
will be informed to members in due course.
With greetings,
Yours
comradely,
C.H.VENKATACHALAM
GENERAL SECRETARY