INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Bank Holidays in December: December 24 will provide window for carrying out transactions.In the wake of strikes and holidays, banks will
remain closed from Friday to Wednesday except Monday, and the banking services could adversely be affected on these days, reported news
agency Indo-Asian News Service (IANS)
Trade union All India Bank Officers Confederation (AIBOC) and the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) - an umbrella body of nine bank unions
(Saturday and Sunday), and December 25 for Christmas
Besides Sundays, banks at present observe public holidays on the second and fourth Saturdays each month since September, 2015.Between
December 21 and 26, bank branches will remain closed on all days except December 24
unconditional mandate for the XIth bipartite wage revision talks, officials were quoted as saying in a report by news agency IANS (Indo
"We called the strike on December 21 demanding full and unconditional mandate for the XIth bipartite wage revision talks based on a charter
of demands submitted in May, 2017
No headway has been made in the process so far even after 19 months since discussion on wage revision began," said Sajay Das, AIBOC
Assistant General Secretary.On December 26, about 10 lakh bankers in private and government banks will go on strike protesting against the
of the nine unions in the banking sector under the umbrella body of United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU).During the strike on Friday, services
at ATMs are expected to function normally while on December 26, ATM services would also be affected, according to IANS.(With inputs from
