Dear List, Greetings to all on occasion of World Braille day. It gives me immense pleasure to inform you all that, Union bank of India continuing their empowerment traverse for PWD Staff members has come out with “UNION BANK OF INDIA EQUAL OPPORTUNITY POLICY 2018-19”. The salient features of the policy are; • The Equal Opportunity Policy covers all persons with disabilities in the Union Bank of India. They could be job applicants, full time/part time employees, interns/trainees, contractual employees, including temporary employees. • The Policy will be renewed every year like other policies of the bank. • the work environment is free from any discrimination against persons with disabilities; • a conducive environment, systems and processes are provided to persons with disabilities to perform their roles with excellence; • no opportunity of employment or promotion, etc., is denied to persons with disabilities, merely on ground of disability; • the provisions in respect of Reservation of vacancies, Interchange of vacancies and maintenance of Vacancy based Roster in recruitment as well as in promotions in respect of persons with benchmark disabilities as required under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017 are complied; • appropriate relaxations and concessions for the purpose of recruitment, promotion and other matters relating to employment as applicable under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017 are extended to persons with disabilities; • appropriate amenities, benefits and facilities are provided to persons with disabilities to enable them to effectively discharge their duties in the establishment; • provision is made, as far as possible, to exempt employees with disabilities from rotational transfer policy or to extend preferential posting to employees with disabilities at the time of transfer / promotion; • provision is made, as far as possible, for reasonable accommodation, for assistive devices and for barrier free environment to persons with disabilities; • a person with disability shall not be compelled to partly or fully pay the costs incurred for reasonable accommodation; • persons with disabilities have adequate support and facilities to avail specific / relevant skill development training; • the Bank shall continuously comply with the standards of accessibility relating to physical environment, transport and communication technology, etc., as specified and reviewed under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017 from time to time. • a Grievance Redressed mechanism for redressing the matters related to the employment of persons with disabilities is available
In past also bank had taken numerous empowering strides for persons with disabilities. Such as; • Special training program on JAWS for Visually Impaired Staff Members • Special training program for Hearing Impaired Staff Members • Released a Manual on accessing bank packages with JAWS • All training centers are equipped with JAWS software for giving a level playing field to Visually Impaired staff members in regular training Programs. We are optimistic that this policy will be implemented in true spirit and will be instrumental in removing the bottle necks in area of accessibility and will provide an equal opportunity to PWD to contribute at their work place. Best Regards Rahul Gambhir Celebrating Louis Braille birthday Jan 4th. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
