This sets the depth, not the content. The law is the same either way.
What brought you here today?
There is no wrong answer and nothing is scored.
গোপনীয়তা বজায় রাখা হবে। Your answers stay on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no account.
Putting your session together
Reading your answersName, workplace, how often you decide, why you are here
Matching your routeCasual leave, the route authored for this topic so far
Pinning the lawact-v2_39+rules-v0_115, 4 provisions, frozen for this session
Checking the signatures10 claims signed, 15 sections reviewed by a person
Nothing is being written for you. Every sentence of law in this session was authored, checked against the workbook and signed by a person before today. This is the machine finding it and checking it is still current.
Rina asks for two days
By the end you can decide a casual-leave request, apply the rule most people get wrong, record it the way the Rules require, and name the one point your factory must settle for itself.
THE SITUATION
It is Sunday morning. Rina Akter, a sewing operator on Line 4, joined your factory eleven months ago. She comes to your desk and asks for Tuesday and Wednesday off. Her sister is getting married.
She has not filled in anything. She is asking you now, standing at the desk, and she wants an answer today.
YOUR CALL
Before you look anything up, what is your first instinct about whether she qualifies?
THE SITUATION
Here is the provision itself. Read the whole sentence, then read it again for what it does not say.
THE LAW verbatim
Every worker shall be entitled to casual leave with full wages for ten days in every calendar year
Ten days, paid in full. Note what is absent: no minimum service period. A worker in her first month has the same entitlement as one with ten years.
THE SITUATION
So Rina qualifies from her first week, and the two days are paid at full wages. Now the second half of the same sentence, and this is where money is quietly lost.
THE LAW verbatim
such leave shall not be accumulated even if it is not availed for any reason, and the leave of any year shall not be availed in the succeeding year
Unused casual leave simply ends on 31 December. It does not build up, and it is not paid out.
YOUR CALL
Rina used only three of her days this year. It is now late December. What happens to the other seven?
THE SITUATION
Now the process. Rina asked you verbally, at your desk. That is not yet an application.
THE LAW verbatim
If a worker desires to take leave, he shall apply to his employer in writing, and the address at which he will stay during the leave shall be mentioned therein.
In writing, and it must carry the address where she will be during the leave.
THE SITUATION
She fills in the form and hands it to you on Sunday. Her leave would start on Tuesday. You are now on a clock, and there are two of them.
THE LAW verbatim
The employer or an officer authorised by him shall pass his order within seven days of receipt of such application, or two days before the commencement of the leave, whichever is earlier
Two clocks, and the earlier one wins. Leave starting in four days must be decided in two, not seven.
THE LAW verbatim
Provided that if, on account of an urgent reason, the leave applied for is to commence on the date of the application or within three days thereof, such order shall be passed on the very day of receipt of the application.
Urgent and starting within three days: decide the same day it reaches you.
YOUR CALL
She applied on Sunday for leave starting Tuesday, and she has given you an urgent reason. When is your decision due?
THE SITUATION
You approve it. One more thing is owed to her, and it is the step most often skipped precisely because the answer was yes.
THE LAW verbatim
If the leave applied for is granted, a leave pass shall be given to the worker concerned.
Granting is not enough on its own. She receives a pass.
THE SITUATION
Now suppose the answer had been no. Line 4 is short-handed and Tuesday is a shipment day. Refusing is open to you. What is not open to you is refusing informally.
THE LAW verbatim
If the leave applied for is refused or suspended, it shall, together with the reasons for the refusal or suspension, be communicated to the worker concerned before the date of commencement of the leave applied for, and it shall be recorded in the register maintained for this purpose.
A refusal carries three duties: give reasons, tell her before the leave was due to start, and write it in the register. Most factories do the first and skip the third.
THE SITUATION
And the record itself. Whether you granted or refused, it lands in one place, on one prescribed form.
THE LAW verbatim
In accordance with the section 10, the leave register will be kept as per Form- 9 and the descriptions of the leave mentioned in the sections 115, 116 and 117 will be written down in it.
One register, on the prescribed form, covering casual, sick and annual leave together.
THE LAW verbatim
If any firm keeps the leave register in the digital method in the prescribed form, its printed copy will be considered as the leave register.
Your HR system is acceptable. The printed copy is the register, so it must be printable in the prescribed form.
THE SITUATION
One last thing, and it is the honest part.
Suppose Rina had asked for six days in a row rather than two. Many factories have a house rule capping consecutive casual days at two or three. Yours may well have one.
We looked. Here is what we can and cannot tell you.
THE LAW DOES NOT SETTLE THIS
Neither the Act nor the Rules fix a limit on how many casual-leave days a worker may take in a row. A cap on consecutive casual leave is an establishment policy, not a statutory rule.
If your factory applies a limit, write it into your service rules, apply it consistently, and be ready to explain the basis. Do not present it to a worker as a requirement of the law.
Your establishment must decide this, write it down, and be able to defend it.
YOUR CALL
Your factory caps consecutive casual leave at three days. Rina asks for six. What can you truthfully tell her?
IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Before you finish. Thinking about your own factory, what would you find in your leave register for the last three refusals? Write it for yourself. Nothing here is scored or sent anywhere.
Not graded. Nothing here is sent anywhere.
WHAT YOU TAKE AWAY
Here is the register entry for Rina, laid out the way the prescribed form expects, and a short note you can take to whoever owns your service rules.
Leave register entry and policy note
Prepared by at
LEAVE REGISTER ENTRY
Worker Rina Akter
Card No ____________
Division or Group Line 4
Date of appointment ____________
Nature of leave sought Casual
Accumulated at start of year ____ (casual, current year)
Days granted 2
Dates Tue ______ Wed ______
Reason for rejection n/a
Date of granting same day as application
(urgent, commencing within three days)
Leave pass issued Yes
Amount of unavailed leave ____
Signature of worker ____________
Signature of owner/manager ____________
NOTE FOR OUR SERVICE RULES
1. Casual leave carries no minimum service period. New workers hold the
full entitlement from the start.
2. Unused casual leave lapses at the year end. It does not accumulate and
it is not paid out. Our register should show the year-end balance while
there is still time to use it, not after.
3. Urgent applications commencing within three days are decided the same
day they are received.
4. Every refusal needs reasons, communicated before the leave was due to
start, and an entry in the register.
5. Our cap of ____ consecutive casual days is OUR policy. It is not a
statutory limit. Say it that way to workers.
Take the note to whoever maintains your service rules. Point five is the one worth raising first.
That is the whole of it, .
You can now decide a casual-leave request, apply the rule most people get wrong,
record it the way the Rules require, and name the one point your own factory has to settle for
itself.
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Leave register entry and policy noteReady to print. Take point five to whoever owns your service rules.
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What the law does not settleOne item in this session. You know which, and what to do about it.
The rest of this topic is not built yet. This is session one of a planned five,
and it exists to test whether the machinery behind it holds.