5-Day Workweek For Banks: Status And Timeline

Bank employees in India want to work only five days a week, like many other jobs.

Right now, banks are closed on the second and fourth Saturdays of every month, but a new idea is to make all Saturdays and Sundays holidays.

This means banks would be open only from Monday to Friday.

The government is still thinking about this idea and hasn't decided yet.

The banks say they have enough staff, so that's not a problem.

If this idea is approved, employees might work a bit longer each day from Monday to Friday, but customer service hours will stay the same.

We don't know when this might happen because the government and the Reserve Bank of India still need to say yes.