How Should Employers Handle Leave Without Notice: Deduct Salary or Consider It Paid Leave?

In the situation where an employee is confirmed and is entitled to PL (Privilege Leave), Casual Leave, and Sick Leave, if that employee takes leave without providing a leave note, the amount is deducted from their salary. Alternatively, it could be considered as paid leave.

Understanding Casual Leave

Casual leave is typically a type of leave that employees can take for personal reasons, such as attending to unforeseen situations or simply taking a break from work.

What is your query? It is not clear. I understood that you are asking about the eligibility of PL, CL & SL.

If the employee is availing the leave without any information/approval from the appropriate authority, how can it be taken into account?

Leave Policy and Approval Process

My reply is: What happened to your company's leave policy? Normally, if any employee avails leave, he must get it approved and then proceed on leave. If the leave is due to a death or self-sickness, then the employee can inform the reason telephonically and proceed further. Upon return from leave, he must get the leave approved, and the absence must be regularized. If the employee is not following the rules, then obviously, he must be issued a warning letter, and his leave must be recorded.

Understanding Casual Leave

Casual leave is the leave given to an employee for meeting any casual requirement. It must be for 1 or 2 days and not more than that at a time. It cannot be clubbed with any other type of leave or duty.

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In India, is an employee allowed to take EL/CL on a loan? If yes, is there a set norm or cap on the number of leaves he can loan or take as advance?

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Jaswanty

Mr. S Bhaskar has replied to you in detail about the concept of casual leave. I hope you found his explanation educational. I just want to add that if an employee submits a leave application without a leave note (specifying the purpose of the leave or the type of leave requested), it should not be rejected unless there are specific or strict rules outlined in your company's leave policy.

The HR department may ask for clarification or handle it as the situation warrants. There are no hard and fast rules, but it certainly should not be rejected if the leave is available in the employee's account, and salary should not be deducted as it is not a good HR policy.

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Pkjain