Bank pension cut

Published October 11, 2019

A LEADING bank has exercised a 50 per cent cut on the pension of its retrenched employees from March this year in violation of the Supreme Court decision. The apex court in 2018 fixed a monthly pension of Rs8,000 with a 5pc increase for all those employees who got retrenchment letters from UBL in the year 1997 under a “Mandatory Separation Scheme”.

The decision by the bank management has hit more than 3,800 pensioners of the bank all over the country. The UBL sacked employees association, a mouthpiece of dismissed workers, vowed to challenge the decision in the top court and initiate a countrywide protest against the management. They also appealed the government to intervene and save the poor UBL pensioners from financial genocide.

Faqir Muhammad
Peshawar

Published in Dawn, October 11th, 2019

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