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SBI revises recruitment rules for pregnant women candidates, faces backlash. deets here

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New Delhi: The country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has put in place new rules wherein a woman candidate with more than three months pregnancy will be considered “temporarily unfit” and can join the bank within four months after delivery.

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“State Bank of India seems to have issued guidelines preventing women who are over 3 months pregnant from joining service and have termed them as ‘temporarily unfit’. This is both discriminatory and illegal. We have issued a notice to them seeking withdrawal of this anti-women rule,” DCW Chief Swati Maliwal tweeted.

In the notice tweeted by Ms Maliwal, the Delhi Commission for Women, or DCW, said SBI in a circular on December 31 stopped women who are more than three-month pregnant from joining work, despite having been selected through due process.

“The circular states that she will be considered temporarily unfit and she may be allowed to join within four months after delivery of child,” the DCW said.

“The bank seems to have framed rules which state that if a woman candidate is three months pregnant, then she would be considered as temporarily unfit and would not be given immediate joining upon her selection. This is a very serious matter. This action of the bank appears to be discriminatory and illegal as it’s contrary to maternity benefits provided under the Code of Social Security, 2020,” it said.

The DCW asked SBI to explain the process behind how these guidelines were formed, and to give the names of officials who approved them.

SBI’s latest medical guidelines published on December 31 say: “…If pregnancy is of more than three months, she will be considered temporarily unfit and she may be allowed to join within four months after delivery of child.”

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Earlier, women candidates up to six-month pregnant were allowed to join SBI under some conditions, including getting a certificate from a gynaecologist that her taking up employment at that stage would not affect her health.

State Bank of India is yet to respond on the matter. The DCW has asked SBI to reply to the notice by Tuesday.

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