Dear Friends,
My name is Ankur Srivastava. I joined a company in Ahmedabad on 3rd March 2014 and since then working here. As per company's leave policy I have been granted with 7 SLs, 7 CLs and 21 ELs counted on pro-rated basis for this calendar year. I have exhausted all my SLs and CLs and apart from those I also took 7 more leaves (approved) in an impression that after every 20 days of working I am being granted 1 Earned Leave. However when I received my pay slip for December 2014, I am shocked to see that my salary for these 7 leaves have been deducted because a clause in the company policy says that an employee can use his/her ELs in the next calendar year. I can not understand this logic! Should not these 7 leaves should be balanced with my available ELs in my leave balance account?
Does any clause of any Labour Law states that whether EL cannot be used in the same calendar year of joining. As per my knowledge what law says is "After every 20 days of working an employee is eligible to get 1 Earned Leave".
Please share your humble views and also suggest me how to take care of this situation as 1/4th a months salary is going to hamper be considerably.
Regards,
Ankur Srivastava