(i)A workman in the non-subordinate cadre is liable to be deployed anywhere within a ‘District’, irrespective of the distance involved.
(ii)In cases necessitating deployment outside the District, the workmen concerned may be deployed to any branch/office of the bank situated outside the District upto a distance not exceeding 100 km. from his present place of posting.
(iii)Bank may identify, based on length of stay at the centre/branch/office, the number of workmen employees, to be redeployed from each centre/branch/office to meet its requirements.
(iv)The period of deployment shall be 2 years in a difficult centre decided by the bank in accordance with the Government guidelines and 3 years in other centres.
(v)Repatriation to the original centre shall be after serving in the deployed centre for period as in (iv) above. In case it is not administratively possible for the bank to repatriate the employee to his original centre after the above period, the employee may be required to give 3 centres of his choice so that he can be transferred to any one of the 3 centres opted by him.
(vi)Female employees above the age of 55 and male employees above the age of 56 shall be exempt from redeployment. However, if the required and eligible number of employees re not available to be deployed in terms of the Settlement, the age upto the age of 58 years so as to ensure that the required and eligible number of employees are deployed to be identified centres.
(vii)Employees having mentally retarded/spastic children, certified as such by the attending Doctor, may be deployed only at centres where specialized treatment for such children and special facilities their schooling are available.
(viii)Employees affected by serious ailments requiring specialized treatment as certified by the attending Doctor, will be deployed only at centres where medical facilities for treatment of such ailments are available.
(ix)Redeployment of physically handicapped/challenged employees shall be in accordance with the extant Government guidelines.
(x)A workman in the non-subordinate cadre so long as he serves in the deployed centre shall draw a lump sum amount of Rs. 400/- p.m. (not ranking for any other benefit) besides protection of emoluments drawn at the original centre. These shall cease on the employee’s repatriation to the original centre.
(xi)The above lump sum amount if not payable in case of transfers made at the request of the employee.
(xii)In North-Eastern States, banks may decide on the level and extent of deployment having regard to their requirements within the above norms.
(xiii)The above provisions on deployment are without prejudice to the provisions of paragraphs 535 and 536 of the Sastry Award relating to transfer of workmen.
(xiv)The above provisions on deployment shall be the minimum applicable to all the banks which are parties to this Settlement. Parties agree that any existing bank-level settlement on transfer or deployment whose provisions are restrictive and not upto the minimum provisions on deployment as mentioned above will be modified/terminated as per procedure under the Industrial Disputes Act so as to give effect to the above mentioned provisions on deployment.
(xv)Any bank which is a party to this Settlement and having bank-level Settlement on transfer or deployment may, however, modify and improve upon the above provisions to suit the needs of the bank ensuring, however, that the norms relating to the geographical minimum area of deployment, period of stay at the deployed centre, conditions for repatriation as mentioned hereinabove are not relaxed or diluted in any manner.
(xvi) In banks which are parties to this Settlement where bank level settlements/policies on transfer or deployment of workmen exist which provide for transferability of employees over a larger geographical area, such bank level settlements on transfer or deployment shall remain operative.
SOME CLARIFICATIONS
1.This industry level agreement on mobility deals only with transfer of employees from surplus to deficit areas, if any
2.This Settlement does not cover any other case of mobility like rotational transfers, general transfers, periodical transfers, request transfers, mutual transfers, etc.
3.These norms are only applicable to Clerical employees AND NOT FOR SUBSTAFF.
Deployment:
In partial modification of Clause 32 , sub clause (x) of Schedule VI, of Settlement dated 2nd June, 2005, a workman in the non-subordinate cadre so long as he serves in the deployed center shall draw a lump sum amount of Rs. 600/- p.m. (not ranking for any other kind of benefit). This shall cease on the employees’ repatriation to the original center.