Bank employees in Mancherial protest for five-day work week

Bank employees and officials in Mancherial held a rally demanding the implementation of a five-day work week, a long-pending request agreed upon by the union government in March 2024. Employees cited stress due to digitalisation, workload, target pressure, and staff shortage

Mancherial: Employees and officials of various nationalised banks urged the union government to implement their long-pending demand for a five-day work week. They took out a rally as part of a nation-wide protest called by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) here on Tuesday.

Kokkula Srinivas, secretary of SBI (SBI Staff Union Hyderabad Circle), Mancherial region, said the union government had agreed to introduce the system during consultations with the Indian Banks’ Association in March 2024, but had not implemented it so far, disappointing the employees. He reasoned that employees were undergoing unprecedented mental and physical stress due to digitalisation, workload, target pressure, and staff shortage.

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Srinivas said the system has already been introduced in the Reserve Bank of India, SEBI, LIC, NABARD, IRDA and many other financial institutions.