Bengaluru: As many as 220 employees of the erstwhile State Bank of Mysore have approached the High Court of Karnataka urging it to direct the State Bank of Indiato absorb them on a permanent basis with all the emoluments and benefits accruing to the posts they hold.
C Ravi and other sweepers-cum-peons at various branches of the SBM said the SBI had put them on notice despite an assurance by the erstwhile bank that their services would be regularised after the amalgamation. The employees said the SBI told them it would retain only permanent and regular officers from the SBM.
The petitioners have cited a memorandum of settlement reached between the SBM and the SBI that calls for regularising the services of temporary peons who have worked for more than 240 days in a block period of 12 months in any calendar year. They said most of them had worked for more than a decade, while some others had put in almost 20 years.
