Is Taking Saturday Off After a Friday Holiday Considered Sandwiching Leave?

Understanding the Sandwiching Leave Scenario

I want your advice on the sandwiching leave scenario. Please provide me with your valuable suggestions on it.

As we know, the sandwiching scenario is as follows: Sunday is a holiday, and if any employee takes leave on Saturday and Monday, then it will be deducted as 3 days of sandwiching leave for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

Question on Friday Holiday Scenario

Now, my question is: If any day on Friday is a holiday, and an employee takes leave on Saturday, is it also considered sandwiching? This situation would be Friday (public leave) + Saturday (employee on leave) + Sunday (public holiday). Is this case also called sandwiching or not?

Regards

It's only one day off on Saturday as Friday and Sunday are holidays. In the event the person takes a day off on Monday, then Sunday would be considered as part of the leave.

Hi Bhavya, my friends are absolutely right in their own way. However, it's not only dependent on company policy. The concept behind this is the prefix and suffix of leaves. The concept states that if a person prefixes the leave without authorization (for example, taking Monday off after Sunday without authorization), then it depends on the in-charge who approves leaves, and they can deduct the salary for Sunday as well. This is to discourage employees from making it a habit. The suffix works similarly. In both cases, the employee's past performance record, reliability, and sincerity can be considered. This can be considered a part of the company policy. However, if both prefix and suffix are mixed, that is known as clubbing.

Clubbing Rule

The clubbing rule states that if a leave is approved, there will be no deduction of salary unless the employee has exhausted their leave balance; in that case, one day's salary will be deducted. If a Friday leave is not approved by the in-charge, to set a benchmark, you can deduct the salary for three days because there is no sanctioned leave for that day. But if a senior person has already approved the leave for Friday, then the employee is permitted to take the day off.

Thank you.

Sandwich leaves are applied when leaves taken intervene with weekly offs or holidays. In your case, as the employee was present on Thursday and Friday was a holiday, he took leave on Saturday, and Sunday was the weekly off. Sandwich leaves won't be applied in this case since he took a single leave on Saturday. If he had taken leave on Thursday and then on Saturday, it would be counted as a 3-day leave because a holiday occurred between his two leaves. In another scenario, if the same employee also took leave on Monday, then 5 days would be counted under the sandwich leave policy.

Hope this explanation satisfies your query.

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Thank you for your opinion, but what happened in this case is the same. Prefixes and suffixes are also not allowed in the corporate world. This is a situation where the practice of combining prefix and suffix, which we refer to as clubbing, is evident. Do you not think that this rule should apply in this case as well? Because clubbing and sandwiching are essentially the same. Please clarify this.

Regards

Your query is not clear to me about what you exactly want to know. Anyways, going through your prior post where you have mentioned unauthorized leave being clubbed, I would like to say that, principally, any unauthorized leave that has not been approved by the reporting manager is treated as absent and will result in leave without pay, regardless of whether the employee has leave balances in their account.

Sandwich Leave Policy

When we talk about the sandwich leave policy, most companies that follow this policy proceed in the same way as I have described in the above post. However, companies may establish their own leave policies according to their requirements as there are no hard and fast rules for the same.