Annual Leave and Holidays in India

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Annual Leave and Holidays

Paid Vacation / Annual Leave

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The Factories Act has provided annual/earned leave of 12 working days for all the workers who have worked at least 240 days in a year. However, the duration of earned/annual leave differs for the adult and young workers. An adult worker is entitled to one day of earned leave for every 20 days of service while a young worker (under the age of 15 years) is entitled to one day of earned leave for every 15 days of service. Thus, the annual leave duration is 15 working days and 20 working days for adult and young workers respectively.

Workers are paid their usual daily wage rates for the days of earned leave. A worker is paid his full daily wages during the term of annual leave. Daily wages are the average of his total full time earnings for the day on which he actually worked during the months immediately preceding his leave, exclusive of any overtime and bonus but inclusive of dearness allowance and the cash equivalent of advantage accruing through the concessional sale to the worker of food grains and other articles.

If a worker takes four or more days’ leave at a time, his wages are paid before the leave begins. The employer, the works committee and the Chief Inspector of factories determine the schedule of leaves by mutual consensus to ensure continuity of work. A worker may take all or portion of annual leave provided that he/she notifies the employer in writing at least 15 days prior to the date of availing annual leave and such request may not be refused unless it contradicts with the scheme of leave already agreed. Even when in portions, annual leave cannot be taken more than three times a year.

Annual leave may be carried over however no more than 30 days can be carried over to the next year. If the employment contract expires before a worker could take annual leave, compensation for leave is made in proportion to the number of months and numbers of hours worked in a week.

Pay on Public Holidays

Workers are entitled to paid days-off during Festival (public and religious) holidays. These include memorial holidays and religious holidays.

There are many festival and religious holidays in India however only three of these are fully covered national public holidays. These are Republic Day (January 26), Independence Day (August 15) and Mahatama Gandhi’s Birthday (October 2). ( National and Festival Holiday Act & www.qppstudio.net)


Weekly Rest Days

The Factories Act provides provision on weekly rest. Workers are generally entitled to at least 24 hours of weekly rest on the first day of the week, i.e., Sunday. The weekly rest period is reckoned as a paid time.

Workers may be required to work on weekly holiday; in this case, he/she is entitled to the substitute holiday three days before or after the usual weekly holiday. Even in the case of holiday substitution, workers must be given a weekly holiday in every 10 days.  If an organization is exempted from the provision related to weekly holiday and workers are not granted their weekly holidays, an equal number of compensatory holidays have to be granted within 2 months.

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11 COMMENTS

  1. I am a gazetted officer in a central government organisation working in round the clock shifts of 8 hours with a repeating four day cycle followed by one off and two offs after four night shifts making it 8 offs in 32 days. I would like to know the following: 1. What sort of compensation I am eligible in terms of off in lieu of the 15-17 gazetted holidays declared during the year. 2. What sort of compensation I am eligible in terms of doing atleast 90 days of night shifts during the full year. 3. I feel that being a gazetted officer I am not eligible for any monetary compensation, then how do we balance the whole thing. 4. How much of compensatory offs the officer is eligible other than his ususal leaves? Kindly answer these questions and also advise were this can be represented personally without any disciplinary action?

  2. if we are working in pvt sector. how many leaves provided by the company in a year. like CL,EL and SL. kindly update asap.

  3. If i will take leave 5 days or more than for any emergency work my company deduct all Sunday salary also of same months, so that is wrong according to me but what’s your opinion about this matter

  4. if company as not pay salary staff 2 months as complete is there any action on company

  5. It is actually a great and useful piece of information. I?¦m happy that you simply shared this helpful info with us. Please stay us informed like this. Thank you for sharing.

  6. I was working under a govt organization for 4 years and till now they gave neither leaver nor holiday. I was continuously attending the duty without availing any public holiday or festive holiday since my joining. the organization was not paying any extra amount for that and my salary was like consolidated payee.please help to find the way to get justice..

  7. My boss asked me what are the holiday entitlement of our employees?
    A- I picked holiday list of annual calendar, then said 14 days.

    Any one can guide me on this.

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