1. If we stop her salary from april, is there any legal obligations my organization may fall under.
2. We are ready to give her leave with out pay , can it be done whereas as an employee she can still avail our mediclaim facility.
Morally we will support her and financially as well at our personal level but i want to keep my organization from any compliance and legal complications.
Please guide
From India, Noida


In the first place, the gesture of your management is highly laudable though the unfortunate employee afflicted with cancer happens to have just a year of service in the organization.
Coming to your queries, I think that by this time all her leave would have been certainly exhausted and the inevitable option of leave on LOP would be in place in view of her short span of service and longer duration of treatment. Therefore,
(1) Stoppage of salary from April,2020 onwards for her absence,if any due to her continued treatment of the disease will not at all be illegal; better you get a formal leave application for leave on LOP from her.
(2) Leave on LOP for a genuinely serious disease like cancer cannot affect the right of the concerned employee to Avail of company-sponsored mediclaim facility or vice versa.
From India, Salem
From India, Noida