"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
The ambiguous state of our legal structure and its formats leave the common man with no
grasp of the basics of the system in which he lives.
Treatises and documents are boundless, but yet so vague and so verbose, that one has neither
the time to read it nor to even glance it.
Over the years it is greatly felt that a standing reference material which can help abank
worker to be aware of this rights as bank employee is necessary. Hence this effort on the part
of mine to give you a summary of your rights as a bank employee edited from the available
sources. This document is exhaustive and gives the most correct picture of our rights…
This book is for all. The objectives of this book are to enable activists to understand
important concepts in settlements with practical illustrations and to get insightful
understanding of changing environment of service conditions followed in banks and other
sectors. it is hoped that books will be useful and will be a tool for effective activists, office
bearers of union and HR personnel’s in days to come. Every line present day’s employees in
banks are now referring as a service condition and benefits has got an historical struggle and
historical negotiation. Remember, the task of the union to shape your life, career and future
was never an easy way or path. These benefits are hard earned rights in tough times. Now
you hold the responsibility to preserve, protect, and improve them. Let thousand hands join
and build our movement strong. Success is not a destination but it is a journey.
S Srinivasan
The author Mr. S Srinivasan is a man of many passions- Union activist by profession, a pioneer in the bank employees’ union movement, a social empathist, an ideologist, a mathematics enthusiast, a teacher, a writer and a man of deep humanitarian conviction He became an activist for the rights and moralities of the staff in the banking sector, soon finding his way up the value chain in the All India Overseas Bank Employees Union and ultimately serving as the General Secretary of the Union for 23 years. In the year 1991, he was first appointed as the workmen director on the Board of Directors of Indian overseas Bank. During his tenure, he continually strived for the betterment of the bank and its people, and in making them aware of their rights and responsibilities, and in motivating and mobilizing them to follow their conviction. He successfully established innumerable historic welfare schemes, benefits, and inimitable settlements for the employees and authored, compiled and published several trade union information books and essays; his most significant work being the ‘Know your Rights’ volumes which was recommended as a reference compendium of Service Conditions by the management of Indian Overseas Bank to their respective regional offices the genesis of these books lay in the long felt need for compilation containing authentic and updated materials drawn from various resourceful materials which collected and compiled notes. The author has also written book on know your defense in domestic enquiries two volumes.
