Sick leave is meant to compensate loss of pay due to sickness and we cannot say that you should not fall sick continuously. It is not given to an employee to enjoy a vacation for which they have privileged leave (PL) or to meet any casual event or emergency for which a single day (casual leave) would be sufficient. It is obvious that if you fix, say, 6 days of sick leave per annum, and someone who has a plan of leaving your organisation in a month or two takes the entire 6 days of leave in the first month itself producing a medical certificate which is readily available (in the market!), then you would be a loser. In order to avoid this, companies generally sanction SL also prorate only. But this is not correct with regard to sick leave. Certainly, if an employee who has availed the entire sick leave leaves, you can deduct the leaves in addition to what is arrived at by calculating it on prorate basis from the amount payable to the employee.
Now another important thing relating to leave is that employees of IT companies are covered by service conditions as per the State Shops and Commercial Establishments Act. Though it is a state Act and due to which the provisions will change from state to state, I don’t think that any state has 12 days CL and 6 days SL provision. To my knowledge, almost all Shops Act have provided for 12 days of CL, 12 days of SL and 12 days of PL.
Regards,
Madhu.T.K