Bhubaneswar, July 31: From August 1, compulsory deduction of one day leave will be applied for employees of the Finance department those who arrive after 11 am. Similarly, half a day will be deducted if a day’s attendance is above four hours but less than 7.5 hours, as per a new office order issued on Tuesday.
The order further stated that a day’s leave would be deducted from total permissible count of the staff who remain present in the office for less than four hours.
The employees are directed to reach office by 10 am and record ‘office in’ and ‘office out’ time at 6 pm in the biometric attendance recording device and non-recording of ‘office out’ time will be treated as absence from duty for the day.
Every employee has to remain present in the office for at least 7.5 hours a day. If an employee’s office in time is 10.30 am, then he/she will leave the office after 6 pm, the order said..
“Those who arrive after 10.30 am and before 11 am, forfeiture of a day of casual leave for three days of late attendance in a month will be applied on them even if they spent 7.5 hours in office. Compulsory deduction of one day leave will be applied for those who arrive after 11 am and irrespective of office out time. There will be no action if attendance is 7.5 hours or more,” the order stated.
Employees will have to work beyond 5.30 pm or beyond 7.5 hours of duty and will have to remain in office till completion of work in case of urgent need as per direction of higher authorities.
However, staff deployed in the office of the minister will be exempted from these instructions. Notwithstanding this instruction, employees will have to attend office on Sundays/public holidays for attending urgent budget/assembly/court cases and other urgent official matters. Employee seeking half day casual leave on working days will have to take prior approval and work for minimum four hours - from 10 am to 2 pm or from 2 pm to 6 pm, the order added.
