Need Support For Leave Policy Design

Dear All,
I am working with a service industry with different branchs all across india having registered under Shops & establishments Act. Sir, I want to design leave policy (PAN India) for my company. And i Have understood the basic rules of leave as per the above mentioned Act. But i am unable to understand that our all branches are located at different states where the general rules of leaves differ as per the Shops & Establishments Act. My Query is: Do i have to design my company's leave policy as combined or should i design it as per the shops & Est. Act Statewise?
Example- In Delhi minimum PL compulsary is 15 and in maharastra PL is 21. What head count Should be taken (15 or 21) for pan india?
Thanx N Regards
Anish Sharma
Sr. Executive
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Dear


As we all know that Shops & Establishment Act is a State Act & if all branches are registered therein then we are legally bound to grant different kind of leaves as provided therein. You can also design single leave policy for all the employees working in different states but in that case we will have to keep in mind the maximum number of leaves under each head as provided in different State Shops Acts to avoid non implementation of this Act in any of the State. If the company wishes & have the capacity to grant these maximum leaves then you can frame this single leave policy.
Opinion/comments submitted as requested.
Regards,
R.N.Khola

As everybody knows that each and every industries provied three kind of leave.
Given listed below.
EL 1.5
Cl 0.5
Sl 0.5
Thanks & Regards
Bharat Mudgal
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The policies have to be compliant for local laws.. unless you got exemption from the local authorities to deviate.( which is normally a long process).. I would recommend that you first make table of various provisions in different states pertaining to leave and then arrive at policy which is compliant to all. Some Acts have provisions of casual leave and some do not have. Some specify the amount of sick leave and some don't.

The good option would be (after tabulating the the provisions) to arrive at total No of leave in your policy and mention in the policy that these provision shall include provisions for casual and sick leave. This way you would be able to comply with different regulations.

Flip side of this is that if you decide to encash the leave, it may add to some extra financial burden as you will not be able to set aside casual / sick leave which are normally non encashable.

To run a large corporation, it is always advisable to have common (1 central national level) policy.