No successive holidays for banks as thought earlier!
Posted on: 04/Mar/2020 11:36:21 AM
As the strike proposed by the bank employees throughout India has been withdrawn and cancelled, the bank officials have announced that the banks would function normally next week!
Appealing with a 12-point demand including salary increase and 5-days-working week, the bank employees throughout the country went on strike on 31st January and 1st February At that time, they further announced that their next strike will be for 3 days from 11th to 13th March.
In this situation, the Bank Employees� Association and the Bank Officers� Association held continuous discussions with the central government. As there was some positive progress in these discussions, the proposed 3-day strike from 11th to 13th March has been withdrawn. So, there won�t be any successive bank holidays as expected earlier.
The bank officials explained regarding this:
�A strike was proposed to be conducted for 3 days from 11th to 13th March. As 10th March is a holiday for the occasion of Holi festival, a decision was taken to propose strike from 11th March. With 14th and 15th March also happening to be government holidays, there was a situation where there would be 6 successive holidays when banks would not function! However, as there was some positive progress in the discussions between the central government and the bank employees association and the bank officers� association, the above-proposed strike has been withdrawn! So, the banks will function as usual on the above dates. Only, 10th March will be a holiday on the occasion of Holi in the states where this is celebrated!
