The Madras High Court has restrained State Bank of India (SBI) from removing a woman employee who was on maternity leave.
G. Thirukalyanamalar of Kallakurichi had approached the court to declare that the action of the bank in attempting to divest the services of a confirmed employee without any charge sheet/ enquiry, that too while she was on maternity leave, was illegal.
Justice D. Hariparanthaman granted an interim order restraining the bank from terminating her and also ordered notice to the bank.
In the petition, Ms. Thirukalyanamalar said she came to India as a Sri Lankan refugee in 1990. After she obtained a post graduate degree from Bharthiyar University, she was initially appointed as Officer-Marketing and Recovery (Rural) for a period of two years. She joined as a contractual employee in Palani branch. Following an order of the Madras High Court, she was absorbed as permanent employee since 2010. She said that she reliably learnt that the post now she was holding is not given to a foreigner. The petitioner said: “I am married to an Indian and we have a girl child. I am on sanctioned maternity leave from April. The bank in order to deprive me of the maternity leave benefits has now issued a termination letter.”
S. Vaidyanathan, counsel for the petitioner, submitted that knowing that she was a Sri Lankan refugee, the bank employed and continued her for nearly six years. The action of the bank in attempting to terminate her services while she was on maternity leave was not only illegal but also inhuman.
(Source: the hindu)
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