{"id":29655,"date":"2026-05-21T18:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/?p=29655"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:30:08","slug":"employees-unions-draw-attention-to-increasing-work-pressure-in-banking-sector-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/29655","title":{"rendered":"Employees&#8217; unions draw attention to increasing work pressure in banking sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Seven major bank employees&#8217; unions have expressed serious concern over the increasing work pressure, unsafe working environment, labour rights, mental health and suicides of bank employees. <\/p>\n<p>A joint statement issued after the suicide of an employee of Global IME Bank, Pitambar Khadka, termed the incident as an indication of systemic problems in the banking sector. <\/p>\n<p>Unions say employees are being affected by excessive mental pressure, a lack of work-life balance and harassment and intimidation from external pressure groups. <strong>See also:<\/strong>{<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29652 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/notice-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/notice-2.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/notice-2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/notice-2-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/notice-2-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/notice-2-1187x1536.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Seven major bank employees&#8217; unions have expressed serious concern over the increasing work pressure, unsafe working environment, labour rights, mental health and suicides of bank employees. A joint statement issued after the suicide of an employee of Global IME Bank, Pitambar Khadka, termed the incident as an indication of systemic problems in the banking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,123,126,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-en","category-banking-update-en","category-banking-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/anicabs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29656,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655\/revisions\/29656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/29654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}