Office policy
Reet Sawhney
(Querist) 31 January 2016
This query is : Resolved
work in an advertising agency, an industry that rums well beyond the typical 8hrs everyday.
Our office timings are 9.30am - 5.30pm
One hour grace period is given, post which a late mark is put if one enters after 10.30, and a half day leave is deducted beyond 11am. Beyond 2pm results in a full day leave.
If I enter on time and work till 9.30pm, there is no compensation given. I can enter 1.5hrs late post. Eg, if work till 10pm, I can enter at 11.30am.
Basis this, the company has cut multiple leaves. For there are days when we work at a stretch for 15hrs. And some when you work for less than 8.
Possibility is that if you're working for 15hrs one day, you have to come early the next to finish it off. So the late coming becomes useless.
I want to know if there is any legal action I can take against the company for citing my leaves even though I've taken only 2 (medical + casual) in the entire year.
As the leaves I'm fighting for can be cashed out later, I end up losing almost a month's salary basis the current policy.
Kumar Doab
(Expert) 31 January 2016
Are you asked to work beyond 8 hrs/day?
Can you establish?
Or you have to stretch just to clear your backlog, by your own will?
In any case you may first of all download the evidence of worked hours and also the reason for extended hours of work.
The adjustment of leaves indicates that your employer's timekeepers/HR/payroll do not concur to consider your extended hours as OT and are not compensating you with any substituted holiday and OT @ double wages.
Rajendra K Goyal
(Expert) 01 February 2016
This is general trend in private sector.
Were you asked to work beyond working hours by competent authority and have proof of such orders?
Record all proofs regarding late working and inform labor department.
