Hi
Depending on the nature of the industry & organization the employees work a 5 day or a 6 day work, where a 5 day work will have 2 days paid holiday (Saturday & Sunday) & 6 day work employees gets a 1 day paid holiday (Sunday).
Lets separate what is a holiday & leave. Holidays are fixed by the organization along with the National holidays. Leaves are what the employees want to take based on the reason as these Leaves are earned by the employee based on the nos of yrs/mths they are working. And if leaves are en-cashed one day leave would be equal to one day’s salary.
Weekend holidays & National holidays are paid holiday. Only the working days can be considered as leave.
Hence if a employee works in a 5 day environment & takes Friday to Monday as leave, then he will not work for 4 days, where 2 days of leave (Fri & Mon) & 2 Days of Paid holiday (Sat & Sun).
Assuming that the employee goes on leave on Friday & comes back on Wednesday where Saturday & Sunday are Weekend paid holiday & also assuming Tue is a National Holiday. Then the actual leave taken by the employee is on Friday & Monday.
One fellow member has written in this forum, if a employee is on leave for one month. If the employee has one month’s leaves in his kitty then the entire month would be paid as salary (where leave would be considered only for 22 working days & the rest are anyway a weekend holiday, if there are any national holiday declared by the organization in that month then those would be minus by the total leave taken).
Considering that the employee does not have leave & would go for Loss Of Pay then entire month would be LOP which also includes the paid holiday.
Hope this clarifies.