BANK STAFF LEAVE RULES



 LEAVE RULES
1. Leave other than CL should be applied in writing, one month before, except in urgent cases or unforeseen circumstances including illness, when it is not possible to do so.
2. If an employee desires any extension of leave shall make an application in writing with his full postal and telegraphic address.
3. If leave is refused or postponed, the reason for the refusal or postponement shall be mentioned in the order and a copy of the order given to the employee.
4. No leave or extension of leave shall be deemed to have been granted unless an order to that effect is passed and communicated.
5. Leave of all kinds cannot be claimed as a matter of right. Employee on leave may be recalled.In such case the Bank will pay travelling expenses to and from the place where the employee was spending his/her holiday (including his spouse and children if they had accompanied him/her).
6. Gazette holidays (other than Sundays) shall not be prefixed or suffixed to any leave without the sanctions of the competent authority. An employee who overstays his/her leave (except under circumstances beyond his/her control for which he/she must tender explanation) shall not be paid his/her pay and allowances for the period he/she overstays and shall further render himself/herself liable to such disciplinary action as the management may think fit to consider.
7. Leave earned by an employee lapse on the date on which he/she ceases to be in service. Where an employee’s services are terminated owing to retrenchment, he/she shall be paid his/her pay and allowances for the period of Privilege leave at his/her credit.
8. Unless the employee is permitted to do so by the authority which granted him/her leave, an employee will not be entitled to return to duty before the expiry of the period of leave granted to him/her.
9. The first day of an employee’s leave is the working day succeeding that upon which the employee makes over charges? The last day of an employee’s leave is the working day preceding that upon which he/she reports /returns to duty.
10. An employee shall before proceeding on leave, intimate to the competent authority his/her address while on leave, and shall keep the said authority informed of any change in the address previously furnished.
11. An employee on leave shall unless otherwise instructed to the contrary, return of duty to the place at which he/she was last stationed.
12. The competent authority may require an employee who has availed himself/herself of leave for reasons of health to produce a medical certificate of fitness before he/she resumes duty even though such leave was not actually granted on a medical certificate.
13. Leave may not be granted to an employee under suspension or against whom proceedings are pending.
14. For the purposes of this chapter the term “Substantive Pay” wherever it occurs means the aggregate of (i)basic pay (ii) dearness allowance, (iii) house rent allowance, (iv)special and other allowance, if any (but excluding special allowance drawn as locum tenens and officiating allowance, if any) which the workman would have drawn had he/she been on duty.
15. For the purposes of this chapter, calendar year means the period 1st January to 31stDecember.