Saturday, March 19, 2016

New guidelines for joining by employee or teacher

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 19
With a view to ensuring availability of teachers, Haryana Secondary Education Department has issued guidelines for joining of an employee or teacher in case of unauthorised absence. These guidelines state that the request of an employee on the roll of the Government for joining duties cannot be turned down. Also, in case an employee absents himself or herself unauthorisedly from the office, his case should be referred to the headquarters for disciplinary action.
         While stating this here today, an official spokesman said that these guidelines have been issued in view of delay in granting permission to teachers and employees for joining duty after long absence from office, as the head of school seeks permission of higher authorities for this purpose. This leads to students being deprived of the availibility of a teacher, and loss of service days as such teachers who are granted permission after a delayed decision also seek condonation of delay as duty period, he added.
          The spokesman said that according to these guidelines, as long as an employee is on the roll of the Government and he is not suspended, removed or dismissed from the service, his request for joining duties cannot be turned down.
          Apart from this, if an employee absents himself or herself unauthorisedly from the office, then immediately thereafter his case should be referred to the headquarters for disciplinary action.
          The spokesman said that 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 or delaying of resumption of duties.
          He said that for the period when the employee absents himself or herself unauthorisedly and if later, he or she was discovered to have indulged in any illegal activity, then the 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, he added.
          The spokesman said that these guidelines have been issued in view of delay in granting permission to teachers and employees for joining duty after long absence from office, as the head of school seeks permission of higher authorities for this purpose. This leads to students being deprived of the availibility of a teacher, and loss of service days as such teachers who are granted permission after a delayed decision also seek condonation of delay as duty period, he added.
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