How Should Companies Handle Comp Offs When Employees Work on Their Days Off?

Parthw
Comp Off with suffix/prefix/intervening holidays

Our company gives a 'comp off' for staff working on their weekly holiday. There is no other compensation other than that.

An employee works on 2 Sundays and has 2 comp offs generated which he avails of on a Friday and the immediate following Monday. The 2 intervening weekend days (2nd Saturday of the month and Sunday) are holidays for the company.

In the above case, should this be considered as 4 days leave or only as 2 days of comp off? Assume that the staff has no CL or SL balance, and as per the company's policy, PL cannot be taken for less than 4 days. In this case, the company would have to deduct 2 days' pay (for Saturday and Sunday) as there is no balance leave!

Should a 'comp off' be considered a 'Leave'? Or should the 'comp off' be simply squared off against an earlier day on which the employee has already given his due 9 hours of work at the company's request. That is, should the Friday & Monday in this case be looked at as 2 Sundays for which the employee was present.

Can a company deduct salary/leave for Saturday and Sunday, which are actually the employee's weekly off days?

Finally, would an employee be motivated the next time to sacrifice his weekly holiday for company work when the company ends up deducting from his leave/salary when it comes to reimbursing him for his workday?

Kindly let me have your views on Comp Offs with suffix/prefix/intervening holidays because such issues are on the rise as increasingly employees need to put in extra hours/days for the benefit of the company.
Tejinder Kaur
We allow employees to take comp time off on Friday and Monday because they have worked on a holiday and can claim comp time for it. If they are on leave from Friday to Monday, it will be considered as 2 comp days off instead of 4 leaves.
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