Hi Friends,
The employees who go on the maternity leave ask for extension of leave for couple of days by producing the medical certificate. As per the act it stands right.
The same employee after extending the leaves returns and resigns. Is this ethical? How should the management act?
Can there be any policies framed to eradicate.
Kindly suggest.
Thanks
Vijaya Rani
From India
2The employees who go on the maternity leave ask for extension of leave for couple of days by producing the medical certificate. As per the act it stands right.
The same employee after extending the leaves returns and resigns. Is this ethical? How should the management act?
Can there be any policies framed to eradicate.
Kindly suggest.
Thanks
Vijaya Rani
From India
There is not much you can do about this.
The law is heavily loaded in favour of the women workers and they take advantage of it.
Any extension of maternity leave is in any case, unpaid, so there is no specific loss in it.
However, they block a position in your payroll which means you do not recruit someone else in their place and work suffers.
What you can do is to insist on completion of full notice period, without a notice buyout provision.
And mark them as absconding if they do not serve the notice period.
Other than that, anything you do, will generally be struck down by the courts as invalid.
From India, Mumbai
The law is heavily loaded in favour of the women workers and they take advantage of it.
Any extension of maternity leave is in any case, unpaid, so there is no specific loss in it.
However, they block a position in your payroll which means you do not recruit someone else in their place and work suffers.
What you can do is to insist on completion of full notice period, without a notice buyout provision.
And mark them as absconding if they do not serve the notice period.
Other than that, anything you do, will generally be struck down by the courts as invalid.
From India, Mumbai
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