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Dear Vijayan, Namaste
I had also faced similar situation, not only people came late, but seniors too took liberty of coming way beyond stipulated office timings.
I enforced the same rule, but in different way, (as here the employees are pretty old in the organisation, deducting leaves would not have been beneficial)
1. The incoming office timing was given perpetual grace upto 9.45(actual office timing - 9.30-6) then even if it is 9.46, the person coming late will sit back upto 6.30 P.M. even if he/she does not have any pending work.
2. If the person is delayed beyond and comes after 10 AM then in a month upto 2 genuine reasons are allowed by HOD's discretion and beyond that straight away half day's salary is deducted, which is not deducted in salary or wages but collected as employee fund. (in last 3 months there has been no collection, the collection happened only in the first month, which is lying here in office, to be used as employee welfare or any other way employees deem fit)
Post this rule there is no one who comes late, even if they do, they need to have the HOD's approval on the same, and trust me no HOD can keep giving reasons for late coming, even if the late comer is best performer.
Other than this, if someone has some contingency and if the said employee will be late by more than 2 hours, half day CL is granted, but only after the employee comes and sends email for the approval taken from his/her HOD to all the HOD's and HR, this results in total transparency and no one takes free ride.
It is now more than 4 months that this rule has been implemented and no one comes late, people usually apply for half days....
Best Regards
Bharati Joshi