Proud to be part of the glorious journey of @BankofIndia_IN as we celebrate 121 years of Trust, Service & Nation-Building. 🇮🇳
From a proud legacy to a promising future, generations of BOIians have built this great institution with dedication, resilience and commitment to millions of customers.
As a proud member of the #FBOIOA family, I salute every serving officer, employee and retiree whose contribution has strengthened Bank of India.
Together, let us carry this remarkable legacy forward and take our beloved Bank to even greater heights.
Heartiest wishes to the entire BOI family on the 121st Foundation Day! 💐
#BOI4NationSince1906 #BOIOAPune
@fboioa_india@nilesh_pawar15@aiboc_in@DFS_India@FinMinIndia@PMOIndia
If RBI, DFS, LIC, CVC, SEBI, BSE, NSE, NPCI, IRDAI and NABARD can function on a 5-Day Work Week, why should bankers continue to wait?
Bankers have embraced digital transformation, shouldered rising workloads and contributed enormously to the strength of India’s financial system.
Yet lakhs of bankers are still waiting for the implementation of 5-Day Banking.
Same financial ecosystem.
Same commitment to the nation.
Then why different working conditions?
A commitment once made must be honoured.
✊ No more delay — Implement 5-Day Banking NOW!
#5DayWeekandFairPLI #AIBOC #FBOIOA
An agreement must be honoured. A reward system must be fair.
#5DayWeekandFairPLI
The 5 Day Work Week for bank employees was agreed in the Bipartite Settlement of March 2024. Its implementation cannot remain pending indefinitely.
At the same time, a unilateral and discriminatory PLI framework that divides the workforce must give way to a fair, transparent and inclusive system for all employees.
Every achievement of our banks is the outcome of collective effort.
Recognition too must reflect that collective contribution.
We seek no privilege, only implementation of an agreed commitment, equality in reward and dignity at work.
@PMOIndia
India’s Bank employees seek two things rooted in fairness and dignity at work.
#5DayWeekandFairPLI
The demand for a 5 Day Work Week in banks is not new. It already stands agreed upon in the Bipartite Settlement of March 2024. What remains is its long-pending implementation.
At the same time, the unilateral and discriminatory PLI system must be abolished and replaced with a fair, transparent and inclusive framework for all employees, recognising the collective effort behind every institution’s performance.
Hardworking bank employees are not asking for privilege. They are asking for implementation of an agreement and equality in reward.
A motivated banking workforce strengthens Indian banking and the nation.
@PMOIndia
📢 The timeline speaks for itself.
➡️ 7 Dec 2023: Understanding reached to recommend declaration of all Saturdays as holidays.
➡️ 8 Mar 2024: 12th Bipartite Settlement / 9th Joint Note signed; the 5-Day Banking understanding was recorded.
➡️ 27 Jan 2026: Bank employees and officers observed a nationwide protest strike after continued delay.
➡️ 12 Aug 2026: Nationwide demonstrations were again held demanding implementation.
➡️ Today: Bankers are still waiting.
How many representations?
How many demonstrations?
How much more waiting?
Industrial relations cannot function on negotiations alone. Agreements and understandings must ultimately translate into implementation.
We therefore reiterate our legitimate demand:
Honour the commitment. Respect bilateralism. Implement 5-Day Banking NOW.
This is a question not merely of working days, but of trust and credibility in the collective bargaining process.
✊ United we stand. United we demand.
#5DayBanking #RespectBilateralism #UFBU #5DayWeekandFairPLI
5-Day Banking is NOT a demand for “one more holiday.”
That narrative completely ignores how modern banking actually functions.
Bankers are at the frontline of:
🏦 Financial inclusion
🏠 Housing & retail credit
🏭 MSME financing
🌾 Agricultural credit
💻 Digital banking
🇮🇳 Government-sponsored schemes
📊 Economic development
🤝 Customer service
The proposed 5-Day Banking arrangement itself envisages adjustment of working hours on the remaining five working days.
Technology has transformed banking. Customer access today extends far beyond physical branch counters through ATMs, mobile banking, internet banking, UPI and other digital channels.
What bankers are demanding is a modern, efficient and humane working system.
Reasonable working conditions do not weaken productivity. A motivated and adequately rested workforce strengthens institutions.
Bankers serve the nation with commitment.
Now honour the commitment made to bankers.
✊ Implement 5-Day Banking without further delay.
#FiveDayBanking #BankersUnity #5DayWeekandFairPLI
When commitments are honoured, institutions earn trust. When rewards are fair, people give their best.
Bankers have consistently delivered—financial inclusion, government schemes, MSME & agricultural credit, digital transformation and uninterrupted public service.
Our demand is neither unreasonable nor excessive:
✊ Implement the agreed 5-Day Banking
⚖️ Ensure a fair and non-discriminatory PLI
🤝 Respect the spirit of bilateralism
🏦 Recognise the collective contribution of the entire workforce
Performance should motivate people—not divide them.
One workforce. Equal dignity. Fair recognition.
It is time to convert commitment into implementation and dialogue into justice.
#5DayWeekandFairPLI #BankersUnity #UFBU
905 days since the 9th Joint Note.
997 days since the written understanding on 5-Day Banking.
Bankers even agreed to work 40 extra minutes every weekday.
A signed commitment cannot remain pending indefinitely.
And now the revised PLI matrix says something equally disturbing:
Even when a Bank performs exceptionally well, the bottom 20% of officers get ₹0.
Not less.
Not reduced.
ZERO.
Every year, 1 in 5 officers can be branded a “zero contributor” irrespective of the Bank’s overall performance.
That is not Performance Linked Incentive.
That is Performance Linked Exclusion.
Honour the commitment.
Make PLI fair.
#5DayWeekandFairPLI
@fboioa @boioapune