Bank employees stage protest demanding five-day work week

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Employees of nationalised and determination   agrarian  banks staging a protestation  successful  Kalaburagi connected  Tuesday.

Employees of nationalised and determination agrarian banks staging a protestation successful Kalaburagi connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI

Employees of nationalised and determination agrarian banks staged a one-day onslaught successful Kalaburagi connected Tuesday, demanding the implementation of a five-day enactment week arsenic envisaged successful the 12th Bipartite Wage Settlement.

The onslaught was organised nether the banner of assorted slope worker unions with unit abstaining from enactment and staging demonstrations successful beforehand of the Lead Bank bureau and the Karnataka Gramin Bank Regional Office here.

The slope employees demanded that the Union authorities instrumentality the five-day enactment strategy arsenic recommended successful the 12th Bipartite Wage Settlement signed betwixt the Indian Banks Association (IBA) and the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) successful March 2024.

They pointed retired that the statement has been forwarded to the Centre for support but it remains pending contempt a lapse of implicit a year.

Employee unions leaders said that the hold is unjustified, particularly erstwhile respective fiscal institutions specified arsenic the Reserve Bank of India, NABARD, LIC, GIC and SEBI are already pursuing a five-day enactment schedule.

Stating that the continued inaction reflects favoritism against slope employees, the unit unions urged the authorities to instrumentality the 5 moving days strategy without further delay.

The employees besides said that a five-day enactment week volition trim stress, alteration amended work-life equilibrium and amended efficiency, which, successful turn, volition heighten the prime of lawsuit service.

Office-bearers of the Regional Rural Bank Employees Federation said that anterior announcement of the onslaught was fixed and the Centre should person addressed the demands alternatively of allowing the concern to escalate into a protest.

Regional Secretary of State Bank of India Officer Association Ravi Gowda, State Bank Staff Union subordinate Naveen K. and State Joint Secretary of All Indian Bank Union Chandramohan were present.

Published - January 27, 2026 08:43 p.m. IST

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