[en] In the rishon model the leptons and the quarks can be classified in either doublets or quadruplets of a SU(2) group. Gauge invariance leads to different charged current interactions in the doublet and the quadruplet cases. Demanding that the neutral currents be the same in the two cases, one obtains relations between the different charged current couplings to leptons and quark; moreover, if these transform as linear combinations of doublets and quadruplets, one can estimate the mass of the gauge boson responsible for baryon decay to be not larger than 10⁵GeV. A SU(2)sub(L) x U(1) model is treated in detail