Union Lodge Protest Against Opening Of Banks On Holidays

All Officers’ Organisations will be compelled to resort to any trade union steps including boycott in protest

 ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION

ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS' CONFEDERATION (AIBOC)

ALL  INDIA  BANK  OFFICERS'  ASSOCIATION (AIBOA)

INDIAN NATIONAL BANK OFFICERS' CONGRESS (INBOC)

NATIONAL ORGANISATION OF BANK OFFICERS (NOBO)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     26th March,2014.

The Chairman,

Indian Banks Association,

MUMBAI.

Sir,

       REG: SPECIAL TAX COLLECTION DRIVE 
BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIATHROUGH BANKS.

Kindly refer to our earlier communication dated 

24^th March, 2014 with regard to opening of Bank 

branches on Saturday the 29^th, March, Sunday 

the 30^th of March and again on Monday 

the 31^st of March, 2014, a declared holiday 

under NI Act. on account of Ugadi/New Year 

day celebrations in many states.

While adopting the “No Work No Pay” principle on 

the strike days, including the recent TWO  days 

strike on 10^th and 11^th February, 2014, demanding 

a meaningful wage revision for the Bank Officers 

and wage parity with similarly placed Officers 

elsewhere, profitability was shown as a major 

reason for not meeting our demands as per

 our charter, submitted.

We have informed you in detail, the enormous expenses/losses,

 the Banks are making in keeping the branches and 

Offices open for relatively a small number of tax payers 

by extending the deadlines every year. It has also 

become a practice to ‘reward’/facilitate 

procrastinators vis-à-vis the disciplined law abiding 

tax payers, at an enormous outflow from the exchequer, 

adopting an unfair labour practice of compelling 

the Bank employees to  over work, when they are 

already overburdened with the year end work, 

leading to exploitation of labour in the commercial Banks.

Under the circumstances and in absence of any 

favourable response from your end, all Officers’ Organisations 

will be compelled to resort to any trade union steps 

including boycott in protest, which please note.

Yours Faithfully,

  (HARVINDER SINGH)      (S.NAGARAJAN)               (K.K.NAIR)                       Dr.S.U.DESHPANDE

  GENERAL SECRETARY  GENERAL SECRETARY   GENERAL SECRETARY   GENERAL SECRETARY

   (AIBOC)                           (AIBOA)                             (INBOC)                           (NOBO)

Copy to: Sh. M.V. Tanksale,   Chief Executive Officer, IBA

Banks and RBI to facilitate tax payments

-Business Standard

       The Reserve Bank of India, with a view to providing greater convenience to tax payers, has decided that all designated branches of agency banks and RBI offices conducting government business will keep their counters open on Saturday and Monday till 8 pm. This arrangement will apply where March 31 has not been declared a public holiday. The facility of electronic transactions would, however, continue till midnight on March 31.

In order to facilitate government receipts, necessary arrangements have also been made to conduct special clearing operations across the country. Centralised payment systems, such as, Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) will also be operational on these three days.