Joining guidelines of long absent employee from duty

General guidelines for joining in case of unauthorized absence by the employee

It has generally been that if an employee/teacher reports back for

duty after a long absence from official duty then, instead of allowing him/her to

join the duty, the head of school invariably seeks permission of higher authorities

whether to allow the absentee employee join the duty or not. It would also be

appreciated that due to high workload and other more important pressing

matters such permission gets delayed in ordinary course.

Consequently, many service days of such an employee get lost

which creates two situations. One, students get deprived of the opportunity

of availability of a teacher. Second, such teachers for whom the

permission is granted after a delayed decision also seek condonation of

delay as duty period on the ground that they presented themselves for the

official duty at an early date. The delay in granting permission being not

attributable to them. To avoid such unwarranted situations the following

guidelines are hereby given:-

Joining guidelines of long absent employee from duty

i) As long as, an employee is on the roll of the Government and he is not

suspended or removed or dismissed from the service his request for

joining duties cannot be turned down.

ii) If an employee absents himself/herself unauthorizedly from the office

then immediately thereafter his case should be referred to the Head

Quarter for disciplinary action.

iii) If any head of office deliberately denies joining duties contrary to the

mandate of the service rules then it would be treated as misconduct on

the part of such Head of School and he would be liable for disciplinary

action. Such Head of School may be required to bear the costs which the

department might be ordered to pay to the employee by courts on

account of denial/delaying of resumption of duties.

iv) For the period when the employee absents himself/herself

unauthorizedly and if later, he/she was discovered to have indulged in

any illegal activity then head of school would, in no way, be held

responsible for any such conduct of the absentee employee. Therefore the

head of school should not be afraid of the individual disciplinary conduct

of the absentee employee. Any illegality is always personal to an

individual.

These guidelines be adhered to in letter and spirit and in case of

failure stern disciplinary action will be initiated against the erring

official/ officer.

General guidelines for joining in case of unauthorized absence by the employee (Dated:16.03.2016)