Therefore, I am writing about this issue after around one month.

In one message, a woman staffer shares with me her major concern.

“I have been supporting my mother, a divorcee, and five sisters for several years with a monthly salary not exceeding SR4,000. Of course, this was a great support for us until I got fired from my job. I do not know the reason why the financial organization where I worked sacked me. I did not receive any letters or warning notice explaining the reasons for my dismissal,” she wrote.

I did not see until now any compelling reason why women employees in the banking sector were getting sacked indiscreetly.

It seems that the problem dates back to the very first day when women’s sections were launched at banks, even though the number of women employees in customer relations has been very small compared to men.

Even if we assume that the banking sector is streamlining as a result of the fallout from the global financial crisis, how can we explain this systematic termination of employees from service, often by employing tactics of intimidation, followed by persuasion?

This means that a bank first signals its intention to sack a woman staffer. It then offers her a payoff equal to three months’ salary in order to make her accept a verbal sacking.

If she refuses to go, the bank would raise this amount to six months worth of basic salary. Even if the employee refuses after this, then the bank raises the amount to nine months’ salary and in some cases 10 months.

There are some women staffers who want an end to their predicament of working under severe stress after they continued to resist pressure from banks to end their service for a long time.

This is because of a situation where they work together with employers who do not want to see them stay on the job.

These are the administrative reasons that are difficult to explain, especially when you take into account the financial burden on the bank when it pays a full year’s salary to an employee as compensation.

Is there anything that harms the banking firms if they explain the actual reasons for sacking an employee? How can we protect the rights of employees? What are the contractual obligations that regulate the relationship between the employee and the bank, especially with regard to service and rights?

I have more questions to ask especially as great significance is attached to financial establishments in any country of the world.

How significant are they in a nation that talks about accomplishing great development goals in the upcoming decades?