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Status of Demand of 5 Days Week in
Banks vs GoI and State Governments
by
Rajesh Goyal
Bankers have been fighting for Five days a week
for a very long time. Bank Union leaders are merely giving a lip
service and are not at all serious about the same. They
feel if the bankers start getting some free time, then bankers may question the
union leaders also on so many counts. They have been raising this
demand now for more than a decade. The feedback we are getting is
that bankers are ready to go to any extent to get this demand met.
Bankers will be more than willing to go on strike if a call is given only for
this demand itself. But any union has ever given
any strike call for this purpose.
We have been receiving number of queries about the various rumors
that have been floated. Earlier rumor was that it will be 5 days week from
1st January, 2012, and then date was shifted to 1st April, 2012, and now it is
30th June, 2012. Rumors take place only when there is a lack of
transparency in the negotiations. Every union leader wants to take
credit if it ever comes, but is not ready to commit to his cadre anything.
They merely write a letter and then forget it for 2 years.
On 7th February, 2012, instead of half day, bankrs in few states have been asked
to work for full day !! Is this not shocking? Banks closed for just
two days on account of pre announced holidays, and then RBI need ed to extend
the working hours on next day. Unheard of this anywhere in the world.
Union leaders have not uttered a single word or resisted the same in the name of
customer service. If I go by this logic, then government will never agree
for 5 days week as in that case there will be two continuous holidays every
week. World over, banks close continuously for two days every week.
I wonder as to whom should I salute - Bankers (for calmly accepting the
dictate of mangement , IBA / RBI / GoI babus (to ensure that in the name
of customer make fool of the bankers or Union leaders (who silently asked
their cadre to open the branches for late hours). With the increase of work load, it
is necessary that bankers too should have 5 days a week. However, we
have in our earlier articles have made it clear that IBA and GOI is likely to
take up this issue as a part of the Xth Bipartite Settlement and will try to
negotiate for paying lower hike in the wages. At
AllBankingSolutions.com we have taken this issue on numebr of occasions and
asked the bankers to put pressure on union leaders to delink this issue from
wage revision and let this be settled before wage revision negotiations start.
However, it appears Union leaders and IBA alongwith GOI are hand in glove and
delay the same so that bankers can be made fool and settle for lower wages in
lieu of 5 days week.
We give below the details of 5 days / 6 Days work
per week in different State Governments and GOI in tabular form. Bankers
will notice that 5 days week has been in vogue now for very long time in GoI and
State Governments. Therefore,
Bankers need to the cautious and put all the pressures on union leaders to
settle this issue immediately or soon it may be full day even on Saturdays.
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Sl. No
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Name of the State |
States (*) where
5 days
implemented (with date of implementation) |
States
(@)
with 2
Saturdays per month as holidays |
#
6 days |
Office Times |
Lunch
Time |
Remarks |
Total Working Hours
(excluding lunch) |
|
Daily |
Monthly |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
Andhra
Pradesh |
|
|
#
|
10.30-5.00 |
Half an
hour during 1.00-2.30 |
Holiday
on 2nd
Saturdays |
6.00 |
150.00 |
|
2 |
Assam |
|
@
|
|
10.00-5.30 |
1.30-2.00 |
Holiday on 2nd
and 4th Saturdays |
7.00 |
168.00 |
|
3 |
Bihar |
*
2007 |
|
|
9.30-6.00 |
1.00-1.30 |
For field Departments
10.00 to 5.00 |
8.00 |
176.00 |
|
4 |
Chhattisgarh |
|
@
|
|
10.00-5.00 |
1.30-2.00 |
Holiday on 1st
& 3rd Saturdays |
6.50 |
156.00 |
|
5 |
Delhi |
*
1985 |
|
|
9.30-6.00 |
1.30-2.00 |
|
8.00 |
176.00 |
|
6 |
Goa |
*
1985 |
|
|
9.30-5.45 |
1.30-2.00 |
|
7.75 |
170.50 |
|
7 |
Gujarat |
|
@
|
|
10.30-6.10 |
2.00-2.30 |
Holiday on 2nd
and 4th Saturdays |
6.17 |
148.00 |
|
8 |
Jharkhand |
|
|
#
|
10.00-5.00 |
1.30-2.00 |
No Holidays on Saturdays |
6.50 |
169.00 |
|
9 |
Himachal Pradesh |
|
|
#
|
10.00-5.00 |
1.30-2.00 |
Holiday on 2nd
Saturdays |
6.50 |
162.50 |
|
10 |
KARNATAKA |
|
|
#
|
10.00-5.30 |
1.30-2.15 |
Holiday on 2nd
Saturdays |
6.75 |
168.75 |
|
11 |
Kerala |
|
|
#
|
10.15-5.15 |
1.15-1.45 |
Holiday on 2nd
Saturdays |
6.50 |
162.50 |
|
12 |
Madhya Pradesh |
|
@
|
|
10.30-5.30 |
1.30-2.00 |
Holiday on 2nd
& 3rd Saturdays |
7.00 |
168.00 |
|
13 |
Maharashtra |
|
@
|
|
9.45-5.30 |
1.30-2.00 |
Holiday on 2nd
and 4th Saturdays |
7.25 |
174.00 |
|
14 |
Orissa |
|
|
#
|
10.00-5.00 |
2.00-3.00 |
Holiday on 2nd
Saturdays |
6.00 |
150.00 |
|
15 |
Punjab |
*
1981 |
|
|
10.00-6.00 |
1.30-2.00 |
|
7.50 |
165.00 |
|
16 |
Rajasthan |
*
2008 |
|
|
9.30-6.00 |
1.30-2.00 |
|
8.00 |
176.00 |
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