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Bank officers in Kerala will go on strike on July 15 and 16 to press Dhanlaxmi Bank to revoke the termination order issued to Mohanan PV, a union leader.
Mohanan is president of the All-India Bank Officers’ Confederation (AIBOC), Kerala unit, and Vice-President of the AIBOC at the national level.
NOTICE SERVED
Harvinder Singh, General-Secretary, AIBOC, served the strike notice on Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), New Delhi; the Regional Labour Commissioner (Central) at Kakkanad in Kochi; and the CEO, Indian Banks’ Association, Mumbai.
The union alleged that the Dhanlaxmi Bank management had victimised the Dhanlaxmi Bank Officers’ Organisation (DBOO) for its act of whistle-blowing under the bank’s protected disclosure scheme.
Activists were harassed under some guise or the other for disclosing wilful misuse of authority by the top management in a high-value fraud reported in the Mumbai branches in 2013.
DBOO had served three letters in this regard to the management in 2013 . Ever since the DBOO leaders who had brought the issue to light were harassed.
Hence, the AIBOC demanded that the management protect the whistleblowers and conduct a forensic audit into the Mumbai scam.
STILL AT LARGE
The real culprits were still at large. Innocent officers at the junior level executing the management’s orders should be spared punishment.
The deadlock in industrial relations has been continuing since July 2014. The management has refused to implement the minutes drawn up after discussions held in the same month.
Following the intervention of AIBOC, a consensus was reached on February 4, 2015. Draft minutes were prepared to the satisfaction of both parties. But, the management team backed out from signing the document without giving any reason.
The union also alleged several instances of ‘victimisation transfers’ and negation of eligible transfers during the current year, including those effected after the strike call.
OPEN THREAT
“It is highly objectionable that a minority outfit of officers has been unduly favoured by giving them choice postings, totally deviating from the norms,” the union said.
It also took grave exception to a Chief General Manager heading the HR function delivering open threats to bring physical harm to the dismissed officer Mohanan.
It charged the same Chief General Manager with making ‘unsavoury and sexist’ remarks against lady officers securing promotions in an official discussion with DBOO.
It also wanted the management to stop lateral recruitment as well as persisting with retired officers in its ranks.
Shift in business policies from branch-centric banking to business verticals had not yielded positive results, the union alleged.
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