SICK LEAVE
i. An employee shall be granted sick
leave at the rate of one month for each year of service subject to a maximum of
18 months during his entire service, provided that where an employee has put in
a service of 24 years, he/she shall be eligible to additional sick leave at the
rate of one month for each year of service in excess of 24 years, subject to
three months of additional sick leave.
ii. In terms of dt.12.07.2002, period of
absence on account of (a) unauthorized absence (b) period of Extraordinary
leave not reckoned as service by competent authority and (c) strike period,
shall be excluded while calculating sick leave for that year. Fraction of 0.50 above should be
rounded off to next higher value.
iii. There will be no accrual o sick leave
between the 19th and
24th year of service
of an employee. In other words,
the difference between the maximum entitlement of 540 days and the actual
number of days of sick leave accrued during the first 18 years of service will
not be credited subsequently.
iv. Sick leave will be granted on pro-rata
basis during the first year of service.
v. Sick leave shall be on half
substantive pay, provided that an employee is so requests, shall be permitted
to avail of sick leave on full substantive pay up to a maximum of 9 months
during the full period of service, such leave on full substantive pay being
entered as twice the amount of leave taken in the employee’s sick leave
account.
vi. Casual leave not availed of by an
employee in a calendar year shall be converted into sick leave on full
substantive pay and such sick leave in lieu of unavailed casual leave shall be
over and above the maximum period in sub-clauses (1) & (2) above.
vii. With effect from 01.04.1997, sick
leave admissible in excess of 24 years of service shall be availed on full
substantive pay on request and being entered twice the amount of leave taken in
the sick leave account.
viii. Sick leave can be availed without
production of medical certificate after exhausting casual leave, subject to a
maximum of 3 days at a time, in any case the total sick leave so sanctioned
should not exceed 10 days in a calendar year, for illness of casual nature such
as cold, cough, headache etc.