CORPORATE OFFICE - HR IncianOlh INTER OFFICE MEMO DPnis/ 3 19/02/2021 [From CO (HR), New Delhi Jfo : ED (HR), Mktg HO, Mumbai ED (HR), Ref-HO, New Delhi ED (HR), PL-HO, Noida CGM (HR), R&D Centre, Faridabad ‘Sub: Prevention and containment of spread of COVID-19 — Provision for special leave 1. The situation caused by COVID-19 is unprecedented and a unique one. In onder to protect the interests of employees regularly reporting (o work and thus putting themselves at risk of exposure t» COVID-19, it has been decided to introduce ‘Special Leave for COVID-19" for employees who test positive for COVID-19 for a period upto a maximum ‘of 30 (thirty) days inclusive of all intervening Off days/Festival Holidays to cover the days of hospitalization and/or home isolation/quarantine as advised by the doctor. Detailed provisions for Special Leave for COVID-19 are enclosed at Annexure. 2. To provide uniform benefit of Special Leave for COVID-19, the same shail be applicable to all cases who are currently active on the rolls of the Corporation and have been tested positive for COVID-19 on or after 1.4.2020. Personal leave of any type already availed to cover absence on account of COVID-19 shall be remitted back/credited to the respective eave account of concerned active employees. 3. Employees on sanctioned leave with pay, or on Extra Ordinary Leave without Pay, if tested positive during the period of leave, shall also be eligibie for Special Leave for COVID-19 from the day the employee had provided the sample for COVID-19. Earlier sanctioned but un-availed leave in such cases shall be remitted back/credited to the leave account of the employee. Exclusions on this account are detailed in Annexure. Yue (S. K. Bose} ED We (HR) Encl.: As above CC: ED Ve (IS) - CO, CBTC10, Annexure Leave for COVI 19 ~The maximum period of Special Leave for COVID-19 available to employees is 30 (thirty) days inclusive of ali intervening Off days/Festival Holidays. Within the period of 30 (thirty) days medical complications caused by COVID-19 shall also be covered for the Purpose of leaveif the same are in continuation to being tested COVID-19 positive If any employee after having availed Special Leave for COVID-19, is tested COVID-19. itive another time during the year or next year, such an employee can avail the balance iled Special Leave for COVID-19 in the account of the employee (from the maximum of 30 days) For availing Special Leave for COVID-19, an employee shall be required to submit the relevant documents to prove being tested positive for COVID-19 and also proof for number of days of hospitalization from the COVID-19 treating doctor/hospital and also the advice from the same authority for number of days of quarantine/isolation/test required at home, In case the treating doctor for COVID-19 does not issue the duration required for home ‘solation/quarantine/test, the advisories issued for home isolation by the Corporation as per Govt, norms from time to time shall be reckoned for ascertaining the duration of COVID- 19 leave. The first day of aforesaid Special Leave shall be the day the employee had provided the sample for COVID-19 and later declared COVID-19 positive. Special Leave for COVID-19 shall not be applicable to such cases who are COVID-19 negative but due to various other reasons are advised to quarantine themselves. It shall also not be admissible for any other ailment other than COVID-19, Intermittent leave/absence shall not be covered under Special Leave for COVID-19. ‘Therefore, in case an employee has joined duty and faces medical issues later, any absence post joining duty shall be covered under the existing Leave Rules and will not form a part of Special Leave for COVID-19. Employees shall also be allowed to combine Special Leave for COVID-19 with Eamed Leave, Sick Leave and Causal Leave, Compensatory Off, Restricted Holiday or Joining Time as per normal admissible combinations in respect of each such leave. However, since Maternity leave and Paternity Leave are required to be availed in one spell these leaves can only be either suffixed OR prefixed with Special Leave for COVID-19. Employees on Special Leave for Serious Sickness with or without pay, Child Care Leave, Study Leave, Special Leave to Join Husband, OR those who are on Unauthorised Absence shall not be eligible for Special Leave for COVID-19. HR Head at Divisional Hars. shall be the competent authority for approving Special Leave for COVID-19. For Corporate Office & Business Development, HR Head at Ref. Hats. shall be the competent authority. In respect of employees sanctioned Special Leave for COVID-19, the management, if deemed fit, may advise asymptomatic cases who are otherwise healthy but under home isolation/quarantine to “Work from Home”. The days an employee has worked from home shall, however, continue to be accounted towards the Special Leave period, Cases of such employees who tested positive for COVID-19 in the pest and thereafter separated from the services of the Corporation on any account including superannuation will not be considered for sanction of Special Leave for COVID-19. ae