I am working as a professional at an engineering college. Our established department has placed me on leave without pay for one day due to having five late entries in the month. In our office, if we have three late entries, there is a deduction of one Casual Leave (CL). However, I have no CL remaining in my account for deduction. This decision was made by our Principal. I seek advice on how to persuade them to reverse this decision and receive my salary for the day.
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You are working as a Professor (not profession, I presume) and your college has a late-coming policy where anyone arriving late by 5 minutes on three occasions will lose one day of leave, correct? You have been late for 5 days and had no explanation for your tardiness. As a Professor, who is expected to teach discipline to students, you repeated the misconduct for another four days. Therefore, the decision of the Principal cannot be considered unilateral and arbitrary.
Your Casual Leave should be running from January to December, I presume. By May, you have exhausted your CL quota. Naturally, as per the late-coming policy, one day's pay shall be lost. You cannot challenge this as a matter of right. However, you can provide an explanation for your tardiness, undertake that you will not be late again, and request the authority to reconsider. The disciplinary authority, the Principal, or the Management can release it based on your request.
Please remember that a late-coming policy with a clause that you will lose one day of leave or salary, in the absence of any leave to your credit, is NOT intended to make employees lose their salary but to make them aware of their responsibility to be punctual. We should appreciate it rather than defend against it.
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4526Your Casual Leave should be running from January to December, I presume. By May, you have exhausted your CL quota. Naturally, as per the late-coming policy, one day's pay shall be lost. You cannot challenge this as a matter of right. However, you can provide an explanation for your tardiness, undertake that you will not be late again, and request the authority to reconsider. The disciplinary authority, the Principal, or the Management can release it based on your request.
Please remember that a late-coming policy with a clause that you will lose one day of leave or salary, in the absence of any leave to your credit, is NOT intended to make employees lose their salary but to make them aware of their responsibility to be punctual. We should appreciate it rather than defend against it.
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You can request your management to let you off this time, or alternatively, you can adjust the day against Earned Leave (EL) in your account. In general, this type of Leave Without Pay (LOP) cannot be adjusted with any leave, whether it be Casual Leave (CL) or Earned Leave (EL), because it is difficult to mark a day of presence against any leave.
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