The purpose of CL is to enable an employee to remain absent in unforeseen circumstances where he could not either obtain prior sanction of leave or intimate the competent authority. So it is not prudent to deduct wages for one day absence if it happens once in a while and for genuine reasons.If an employee is in the habit of doing so quite frequently, then counsel him first and then warn him and f he still continues with it, then inform him that if he does so in future, it will be treated as unauthorized absence and he will be liable to loose wages proportionately for such unauthorized absence.
B.Saikumar
HR & Labour Law Advisor
Navi Mumbai