BB punishes 10 employees for assaulting officer
FE Report | Friday, 8 April 2011
FE Report
The central bank Thursday sent six of its staff including the general secretary of employees union into 'compulsory retirement' for assaulting an officer last year, an official said. The Bangladesh Bank also punished four other employees, cutting their increments and transferring three of them to regional offices, after they were found involved in the incident, a deputy governor of the bank told the FE. "We've issued orders in this connection today (Thursday)," he said, adding that the central bank has taken the actions after the 10 were implicated in two probe reports ordered by the BB authorities. According to the probe reports, the ten employees including general secretary of BB's Collective Bargaining Agent (CBA) beat a deputy director of the bank on August 18 last year. The director had accused that the CBA leaders of power abuse and taking bribes from other employees who seek central bank's housing and car financing loans. His protest angered the CBA leaders who assaulted him at the 13th floor of the BB headquarters during office hours. It was the second time the central bank took such drastic actions against its CBA leaders and employees. In 2003, it sacked 10 CBA leaders for forcibly entering the then BB governor's room and staging noisy demonstration. The leaders including the president and the general secretary of the CBA and officers of the BB Welfare Association were sacked following a probe, which found them guilty of gross violation of service rules.
The central bank Thursday sent six of its staff including the general secretary of employees union into 'compulsory retirement' for assaulting an officer last year, an official said. The Bangladesh Bank also punished four other employees, cutting their increments and transferring three of them to regional offices, after they were found involved in the incident, a deputy governor of the bank told the FE. "We've issued orders in this connection today (Thursday)," he said, adding that the central bank has taken the actions after the 10 were implicated in two probe reports ordered by the BB authorities. According to the probe reports, the ten employees including general secretary of BB's Collective Bargaining Agent (CBA) beat a deputy director of the bank on August 18 last year. The director had accused that the CBA leaders of power abuse and taking bribes from other employees who seek central bank's housing and car financing loans. His protest angered the CBA leaders who assaulted him at the 13th floor of the BB headquarters during office hours. It was the second time the central bank took such drastic actions against its CBA leaders and employees. In 2003, it sacked 10 CBA leaders for forcibly entering the then BB governor's room and staging noisy demonstration. The leaders including the president and the general secretary of the CBA and officers of the BB Welfare Association were sacked following a probe, which found them guilty of gross violation of service rules.