| If the school was closed for X'Mas holidays and when all other teachers had paid holiday, why this particular employee (teacher) was denied the holidays?
I do not understand how can sick leave (that also on without pay) be compensated by working on holidays whereas there is no work at all available for him. If , on the other hand, if you instruct a clerk or a machinist or welder to finish all the PENDING works by working on holidays, there is some genuineness, that he can come and finish all work at his convenience. That also is not possible if you had earlier treated the sick leaves as LOP.
Now in your case, it is a teacher who is suppose to work on holidays. Will she teach to desks and benches? And if she makes a complaint that she was asked to come to school during vacations with some other motive, to be very precise, she was sexually harassed (!), where your management's ego will work?.
Now make a home work on the matter. I presume that your educational institution is not owned or aided by government. If so, you must have registration under the AP Shops and Commercial Establishments Act. If yes, she will get 12 sick leave with pay and other leaves as mentioned in the Act. If you have not taken registration, then also she is in a better position to expose it before the District Labour Authorities. Therefore, make your own assessment and advise the Management of it and solve the problem. Find out why she has put this matter after a long gap of nearly 10 months.
Regards,
Madhu.T.K  | 
