CBOA, AP UNIT'S CIRCULAR NO. 16 DATED 05TH OCTOBER 2009

We are reproducing here the circular No.16 issued by CBOA, AP Unit.
Circular No. GS: 2009: 016                  Date: 05.10.2009
TO ALL OFFICERS                                 PLEASE CIRCULATE
Dear Friends,
We reproduce hereunder the Circular No. CIRCULAR/GS/2009/13 dated 30-09-2009 received from our Federation for your information. 
With best regards
Yours sincerely
Sd/-
(C.A. MALLIKARJUNA RAO)
GENERAL SECRETARY
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PROTECTION OF SALARY/BENEFITS/SERVICES FOR DIRECTLY RECRUITED OFFICERS FROM WITHIN THE BANK
Recently the bank had conducted a recruitment process of Scale II and III officers in Specialist Category, IT. A number of officers in Scale I and II from the bank had also appeared in the process. Some of these officers have also been found successful for recruitment in Scale II and III. Such processes have been conducted in different categories earlier also by the bank. In such recruitment processes prior to 1999, other than pay and seniority,  all other benefits like leave, past service etc. were being protected. The matter of extending protection to the pay and seniority had been taken up by the officers’ organization with the bank’s management and also IBA. In the year 2000 after clarification from IBA, the bank had issued a detailed circular extending protection to the pay last drawn by the officers in the erstwhile scale.
However, in the recruitment process of Specialist Category, IT for Scale II and III, the management has conveyed to the recruitee officers from within the bank that salary, seniority and other benefits will not be protected. We have taken up with the management demanding for extending protection to all such benefits. Our communication is reproduced hereunder :
“With reference to above, we would like to state that following provisions have been laid down by the bank for protection of salary, seniority and other benefits etc. for the serving officers recruited in the bank through direct recruitment process:
i) Prior to the year 2000, the bank whenever undertook such recruitment process, was extending protection of all the benefits except for seniority and fixation of pay. We are enclosing a copy of the Order of Appointment issued in the Bank in 1991 clearly mentioning that “….your past service will be included for all benefits except for salary and fixation of pay….”. Thus meaning that all the service benefits like leave, terminal benefits etc. would be protected.
ii) Later on the matter of extending protection to pay and service seniority also was taken up with the bank’s management and IBA for a long time by the officers’ organizations. Accordingly in August 2000, after getting clarification from IBA, our bank had issued a circular No.CO:PRS:2000-2001:114 dated August 18^th, 2000 extending protection to the pay last drawn by such recruitees in the erstwhile scale on the lines of the Fitment Formula envisaged at the relevant point of time for the internal promotion. Accordingly, all together the bank has been extending protection to the salary, benefits service etc. to such recruitees from within the bank.
Contrary to above laid down provisions, while giving postings to internal direct recruitees the bank has made following deviations:
a) In the recruitment of Scale IV and V in the year 2008 the management had given protection to the salary only and no other benefit was protected.
b) Now in the recruitment process of Scale II and III in specialist category (IT) and posting orders given recently, the bank has conveyed to such recruitees that neither salary nor seniority or any other benefits will be protected.
In this context please refer to our communication No.GS/2009/1601/3497 dated 17^th August 2009 (copy enclosed) in which we had requested the management for extending protection of salary, seniority, and other benefits to these recruitee officers from within the bank.
We are however sorry to note that in case of recruitees of Scale II and III in Specialist Category (IT) from within the bank even the earlier protection of salary has been withdrawn, what to speak about extending seniority and other benefits etc.
This is a clear violation of the bank’s policies in vogue as enumerated in the circular issued by the bank in August 2000. At a time when there is a dire necessity for motivating and boosting the morale of the officers, exactly the opposite has been done in the present recruitment process.
We may inform that there are a number of officers from within the bank who have qualified for such recruitment and all of them are feeling demotivated, dejected and frustrated. On the one side, there has not been much promotional avenues for specialist categories, on the other even in the recruitment process the bank is creating an adverse situation for these officers. Many of these officers will be subjected to a decrease in monthly salary in the range of Rs.5000/- to Rs.8000/- apart from losing other benefits.  In the process, the management has been discouraging these candidates from accepting recruitment in the higher scale and they will be forced to refuse recruitment in higher scale.
Many of the Public Sector Banks viz. Andhra Bank etc. have been providing such protections, as if it is a promotion process.
In the interest of the bank and the concerned officers, we earnestly request the management to review and reconsider the entire issue and respect the existing policies, conventions and norms and provide protection to all the benefits like salary, leave, service seniority etc. to these officers who are expected to be recruited in the higher scale. This will certainly enthuse the officers to function more effectively in the bank apart from creating better atmosphere in the bank.”
The matter will be further followed up.
Yours sincerely,
Sd/-
(D.S. BHADAURIA)
GENERAL SECRETARY