How Do You Handle Leave and Compensation for Weekend Work in a 5-Day Workweek?

Hi Everybody .. :) This is Shekar here, working in a group where we have four companies:

1) Audit Firm
2) IT - Software
3) IT - Multimedia
4) Projects

The leave policy is the same for the above-mentioned companies - 20 earned leave days, comprising of 5 CL, 5 SL, and 10 Privilege leave days.

After all, my question is: since we only have 5 working days per week, what benefits will an employee working on Saturdays & Sundays receive? How do companies generally handle this situation and what payment methods are typically employed?

In our company, we offer comp-off for employees working on Saturdays, meaning they can take a day off on another day within 3 months of working on a weekend. However, calculating attendance reports and Loss of Pay reports can be quite confusing.

It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could provide suggestions on this matter.

Regards, Somu Shekar

Dear Shekhar,

I agree it is a difficult task to keep track of employees working on weekends for providing compensatory time off. I think it would be better if you provide them with reimbursement for conveyance charges and a certain amount towards lunch/snacks/dinner based on the period of stay. This way, there will be no hassles of maintaining additional records. However, it would be advisable to ascertain the employees' preferences.

Please keep us informed of any developments.

Best of luck,
Learner

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. It seems we already provide that facility to all employees, excluding conveyance. However, due to compensatory off, it creates a lot of hassle. The suggestion is quite strong, and I would like to hear more suggestions regarding the same.

Thanks,
Shekar

Hi,

Since you have not mentioned the strength of your organization, I assume it is quite big. You could have the Team Lead give the info about who has worked on Saturdays and when they are likely to take the comp offs. The Team leads can get this info from the team members and also keep the team leads informed that the details provided by them should be accurate. The info provided is also easy to store for future reference.

You could have a timetable prepared by the Team Leads at the start of every month, which would include the possible days of Leaves, Comp Offs, and OTs for each employee. This will also help the team as they would know that a person is not available for a certain period, and work will not be dependent on that person.

These are some of the tips I could think of.

Regards,
Soumya Shankar