If an employee is absent before and after his weekly off, then the weekly off is also counted as absent?

I want to know if an employee is absent before and after his weekly off, then the weekly off is also counted as absent?
1. Absent 2. W-off 3. Absent

On what ground, the employee is absent? If he is sick/suffering from any disease,
the weekly-off shall be treated as weekly off only

Dear CiteHR member Mr Vijendra Jaiswal ji,

The question posted by you is almost a common scenario in all kinds of establishments/organisations whether private or government. You are stating the employee is absent i.e. he/she has neither informed about the absence and nor applied for any kind of leave. So long as the leave is not applied, the entire period shall be treated as absent. Weekly off will be considered only when the employee submits leave application for casual leave. In all other kinds of leave the entire period shall be counted as leave, or absent if no leave is applied.

Hope this clarifies your query.

Chandra Mani Lal Srivastava
Master Consultant - Subject Expert: Service Laws
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New Delhi/4.02.2022/10:11 pm

Section 52 (1) of the Factories Act 1948 provides that an adult worker shall not be required or allowed to work in a factory on the first day of the week. Thereafter the worker is to work for the next 6 days. So where the worker is absent on the day following the weekly off, he is not fulfilling this legal requirement and as a consequence he is to be treated as absent for that too.

Absent with out leave is absent irrespective of weekly off in between the absence period.
To regularise the matter if the leave is granted then weekly can be considered as not absent.