Dear Friends,


Our company (private company owned by single person) has formulated following Attendence policy:

* Company business starts from 09.00 AM to 6.00 PM with a lunch break of 30 minutes
* An employee coming to office after 09.10 AM are marked as LATE and:-
* Late of 3 days upto 09.30 AM are allowed in a month, and in case employee comes late more than 3 times then for each late comings ½ day’s leaves/salary to the credit of the employee shall be deducted.

Please answer following queries:

* Has employer got the right to deduct half day's salary if the employee is late by more than 10 minutes?
* If yes, can I know the act.
* If no, what actions can be taken against it?

Kindly answer.



Regards,
Ravi

Dear Ravi,

The recent corporate culture is of more employee friendly.You can come Late to the office if their is any genuine reasons but it should not be in practice.

This practice comes under the the new concept of Flexi Time.

Now the question arises for the deduction in salary, The regular late coming by an employee comes under the definition of misconduct.

The employer has full right for the deduction in salary.(These provision will be given in Industrial Employment Act).

Generally, the Management Play safe due to labour courts and other authorities. The procedure should be first the employee should be warned for the above act through warning letters and than it is last step in the deduction of salary.

So you can talk to the Management to take soft steps.

Hope this information will help U.

Regards
Habib