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Safety of Bank of Employees on the background of Corona Virus.
पुणे :- Safety of Bank of Employees on the background of Corona Virus. Bank employees from the State of Maharashtra and more particularly from the Metropolitan City of Mumbai are striving their level best to provide continued banking services to the common people despite the numerous difficulties faced by them and in the process eleven Bank Employees have lost their lives due to Coronavirus infection. These deceased staff are from State Bank of India – 3, Punjab National Bank – 1, Federal Bank – 1, Central Bank of India – 1, Bank of India – 2, IDBI – 1, Canara Bank – 1, Bank of Maharashtra – 1. In addition to the above one employee from Federal Bank and an executive from Central Bank of India even though were not diagnosed as Corona affected are suspected to have been died of the same. Majority of the Bank employees working in Mumbai City Branches / Offices are staying in Mumbai Suburbs or outside and many are travelling from beyond Mumbai Urban Agglomeration Areas. The banks are not providing any conveyance facility to these employees and public transport such as Local Railway, Metro are shut down. BEST services are very few with less frequency and State Transport Department is not allowing bank employees under the pretext that they are not covered under essential services. Most of the banks have abandoned guards at the entrance and do not have permanent sweepers and thus security and cleanliness is also compromised and banks are unable to regulate customer traffic at the entrance. All this has resulted into great risk not only to the lives of the bank employees but also to the lives of their dependents and neighbors who reside with and nearby them respectively. These employees turn out to be carriers of coronavirus. Further, Government has not extended insurance coverage of Rs. 50 lac to the bank employees at par with the government employees and different banks are following different policy of compensation on death due to Corona infection. In view of the above we representing entire bank employees from the Metropolitan City of Mumbai hereby request you to kindly advise SLBC Maharashtra to fulfill the following requirements for the safety of Bank employees and for providing uninterrupted banking services to the customers:- 1. Arrange for safe transportation which employees can avail within a radius of about 2 km from his/her residence to his/her work place. 2. Ensure that branches are sanitized regularly and entry is properly regulated. -:: 2 ::- 3. Ensure appropriate security arrangements at all branches. 4. Branches be run with 50% staff with alternate day attendance and remaining be allowed to work from home, preferably employees above age 50 & women employees be given preference for work from home facility. Employees suffering from diabetes, Blood Pressure and chronic ailments also be permitted to work from home. 5. Branches be run with flexi time for 4 hours for business since the commutation time of employees has become too long due to non-availability of local train. 6. The employees attending the duties be paid Rs. 1,000/- per day as discomfort allowance for the days for which they are attending. 7. Central Government compensation scheme of Rs 50 lacs insurance for unfortunate death be extended to the bank employees along with compassionate appointments. 8. Bank employees be permitted to travel by State Transport Buses. 9. All the centers such as Mumbai, Nasik, Aurangabad, Pune and similar such places be covered under above provisions of work such as 50% attendance, work from home facility, alternate day attendance, flexi timings etc., and the same be implemented uniformly in all banks at all such areas. In view of increasing deaths of the bank employees from the Mumbai Metropolitan Area employees have become perturbed and in this background we feel that there is a need to give them some comfort in attending their duties failing which it will be very difficult to give uninterrupted services. We hope and look forward for positive steps in the above at the earliest to help us to enable us to give continued banking services in the state of Maharashtra more particularly in Mumbai Metro. Yours faithfully (DEVIDAS TULJAPURKAR) CONVENOR UFBU – MAHARASHTRA STATE Mobile - 9422209380 CC : Chief Executive, IBA, Mumbai Chief Minister, State of Maharashtra Chief Secretary, State of Maharashtra Convener SLBC Maharashtra / MD & CEO, Bank of Maharashtra General Manager - FI & SLBC, Bank of Maharashtra Chairman, State Bank of India Managing Director & CEO, Bank of Baroda Managing Director & CEO, Union Bank of India Managing Director & CEO, Bank of India Managing Director & CEO, Central Bank of India Managing Director & CEO, IDBI Bank Bank employees from the State of Maharashtra and more particularly from the Metropolitan City of Mumbai are striving their level best to provide continued banking services to the common people despite the numerous difficulties faced by them and in the process eleven Bank Employees have lost their lives due to Coronavirus infection. These deceased staff are from State Bank of India – 3, Punjab National Bank – 1, Federal Bank – 1, Central Bank of India – 1, Bank of India – 2, IDBI – 1, Canara Bank – 1, Bank of Maharashtra – 1. In addition to the above one employee from Federal Bank and an executive from Central Bank of India even though were not diagnosed as Corona affected are suspected to have been died of the same. Majority of the Bank employees working in Mumbai City Branches / Offices are staying in Mumbai Suburbs or outside and many are travelling from beyond Mumbai Urban Agglomeration Areas. The banks are not providing any conveyance facility to these employees and public transport such as Local Railway, Metro are shut down. BEST services are very few with less frequency and State Transport Department is not allowing bank employees under the pretext that they are not covered under essential services. Most of the banks have abandoned guards at the entrance and do not have permanent sweepers and thus security and cleanliness is also compromised and banks are unable to regulate customer traffic at the entrance. All this has resulted into great risk not only to the lives of the bank employees but also to the lives of their dependents and neighbors who reside with and nearby them respectively. These employees turn out to be carriers of coronavirus. Further, Government has not extended insurance coverage of Rs. 50 lac to the bank employees at par with the government employees and different banks are following different policy of compensation on death due to Corona infection. In view of the above we representing entire bank employees from the Metropolitan City of Mumbai hereby request you to kindly advise SLBC Maharashtra to fulfill the following requirements for the safety of Bank employees and for providing uninterrupted banking services to the customers:- 1. Arrange for safe transportation which employees can avail within a radius of about 2 km from his/her residence to his/her work place. 2. Ensure that branches are sanitized regularly and entry is properly regulated. -:: 2 ::- 3. Ensure appropriate security arrangements at all branches. 4. Branches be run with 50% staff with alternate day attendance and remaining be allowed to work from home, preferably employees above age 50 & women employees be given preference for work from home facility. Employees suffering from diabetes, Blood Pressure and chronic ailments also be permitted to work from home. 5. Branches be run with flexi time for 4 hours for business since the commutation time of employees has become too long due to non-availability of local train. 6. The employees attending the duties be paid Rs. 1,000/- per day as discomfort allowance for the days for which they are attending. 7. Central Government compensation scheme of Rs 50 lacs insurance for unfortunate death be extended to the bank employees along with compassionate appointments. 8. Bank employees be permitted to travel by State Transport Buses. 9. All the centers such as Mumbai, Nasik, Aurangabad, Pune and similar such places be covered under above provisions of work such as 50% attendance, work from home facility, alternate day attendance, flexi timings etc., and the same be implemented uniformly in all banks at all such areas. In view of increasing deaths of the bank employees from the Mumbai Metropolitan Area employees have become perturbed and in this background we feel that there is a need to give them some comfort in attending their duties failing which it will be very difficult to give uninterrupted services. We hope and look forward for positive steps in the above at the earliest to help us to enable us to give continued banking services in the state of Maharashtra more particularly in Mumbai Metro. Yours faithfully (DEVIDAS TULJAPURKAR) CONVENOR UFBU – MAHARASHTRA STATE Mobile - 9422209380 CC : Chief Executive, IBA, Mumbai Chief Minister, State of Maharashtra Chief Secretary, State of Maharashtra Convener SLBC Maharashtra / MD & CEO, Bank of Maharashtra General Manager - FI & SLBC, Bank of Maharashtra Chairman, State Bank of India Managing Director & CEO, Bank of Baroda Managing Director & CEO, Union Bank of India Managing Director & CEO, Bank of India Managing Director & CEO, Central Bank of India Managing Director & CEO, IDBI Bank
