E circular DK 41 .dated 22 sep 20 from Gen.Secretary Sri D.Krishnan

 

FEDERATION OF RETIRED LIC CLASS I OFFICERS' ASSOCIATIONS

President :    N.P. Bali 705, Sur, Veena Saaz, Thakur Complex, Kandivali (East), Mumbai - 400 101 Mob : 9820324213 Email Id - npbali@hotmail.com

General Secretary :    D Krishnan No.6/1, Sreshta Riverside Apartments, Wood Creek Road, Nandambakkam, Chennai - 600089 Tel : 9176635967 / 044 42850049. Email Id - dkrishnan1@gmail.com

 

E circular No.DK/41                              22-09-2020

Dear Friends, 

REG: Some Important Organizational concerns 

It has been a sort of lay-off, for some days, from my side after the previous communication. But we do need to remain in contact to feel part of the Group…. So here it goes.

You will all recall that I had quoted Lucknow Assn. for finding out an ingenious method  of going ahead without conducting the Annual General Body Meet for this year. Yes, and later on, Delhi Assn. too followed suit. So far so good.. But what about the other Associations? They need to also get around this problem by messaging their members about approval for continuance of the same Team of Office bearers for one more year, if that’s what they decide to do. Please do have this gone through, so that we would have put this matter behind us.  Kindly do confirm, from the Unit Leaderships, that you have duly taken note of this point, and that you are at it, to sort out this issue.

We in the Federation leadership, have been thinking for some time now, as to how we plan out the Executive Committee Meeting of the Federation due in the month of Dec 2020. We are looking at some viable virtual platform alternatives like Zoom, Zoho or Google- talk, through which we could go through with such a meeting. We thought it is of utmost importance that we deliberate on a number of important issues that are ahead of us, and on which we should get some guidance from our guiding Body, the Executive Committee. Once we come to a clear position on this, we shall then inform the EC members as to the choice of the virtual platform and its characteristics and how the technology will link the members and how it will be monitored from a central point etc, to give us the  best result of going through with such a meeting.

Though the issues to be discussed and decided in the EC Meeting have not been fully thought through and framed, some of them that readily come to my mind are:

 

          1. What will be our approach from here on regarding the Court Case in SC --- so far we had taken a position that we shall not push for an expedited Hearing, as the Courts are still on Virtual mode of Hearing, and the Pandemic situation having brought forth innumerable social and economic issues, it may not get the right echo from the Bench on our vital problem of Pension Revision, if we tried to hasten the process. Having waited, and lost out on a number of our valuable senior members from our midst in the meanwhile, would we wait further or go for it now?

2. Should we once again have a conclave of all the Petitioners in the fray, so that we seriously make a joint review of the Approach on the Court Case?

3. The Kerala HC Review Case regarding the 92-93 Retirees matter, is also overdue for a Hearing. What should our approach be in respect of this Case, after the gap in time, due to the unavoidable Pandemic situation?

4. What do we make of the position of Banks’ Settlement, after their signing the MOU with the IBA ? Are they done and dusted ? In Sept 2019 an activist of bank employees filed a petition in Madurai Bench opposing the IBA negotiations outside the Code of Wages and related matters. Notice was served on IBA. While the case is pending, Canara Bank officers picked a thread from the last year’s petition and have filed another petition contending the IBA is not a registered body and they are proceeding with the discussion with bank unions though one of the member associations BEFI was not a party to the MOU. They contend when a member of UFBA did not consent, IBA must have gone to Labour Commission which they failed to do. They even questioned the legal standing of the IBA for entering into an agreement? IBA may get over the uncertainty but at the moment a roadblock seems to exist. 

5. A review of the decisions taken by our Associations in completing the requirement of an Annual General Body Meeting, about which we have raised a serious concern in this very Communication.

6. The Non-responsiveness of the LIC Management to issues raised by us through letters, to the leaders at the highest level. 

There could be other issues as well that are thought through eventually, before they are actually made part of the Agenda for Discussions in the EC Meeting. 

Meanwhile I thought of sharing with you all, the text of the communication sent to the MD/ ED of LIC Central Office, on the matter of Group Insurance Scheme extended to the Retiring Officers as well, and the recent CO Circular of dt. 20-08-2020 on the subject.

The copy of the letter sent out is attached.

With Best Wishes to all

 D.Krishnan

Encl: To ED-P -- GIS to include employees who had opted for Voluntary Retirement.pdf