Is It Fair to Count Weekly Offs as Leave Without Pay When Resuming Work on Monday?

Dear Friends,

We are a Pvt Ltd. Co. We have 5 days working, with Saturday and Sunday as weekly offs. In our organization, if a person doesn't have leave balance and remains absent, then the same is treated as Leave Without Pay (LWP), which is a common practice everywhere.

Now, if I exhaust all my leave by Thursday, naturally Friday will be a loss of pay for me. I won't be attending the office on Saturday and Sunday, both being weekly offs. If I resume on Monday, my absence for 3 days - Friday (fair and acceptable) and even 2 days of weekly offs - will be treated as leave without pay, and salary will be paid for 3 days less.

Is this legally allowed? Or since I resume on Monday, should Saturday and Sunday be treated as weekly offs, with only one day (Friday) to be treated as LWP?

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Thanks

Regards

Pari

Dear Pari,

The company is adopting the wrong practice, and your version is correct. If someone is absent on Friday with no leave balance and joins back on Monday, then only one day's salary should be deducted. However, if they are absent on Monday as well, then four days' salary has to be deducted.

Thank you.

JS Malik