The CCL, which is over and above the existing six-month maternity leave, will now be available only after the women employees exhaust their earned leave or EL.
The CCL was announced two months ago on the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission to help women employees take better care of their children and family. But the more virtually backfired with several central government departments being flooded with applications from women employees for CCL.
Alarmed, department heads then petitioned the government, arguing that granting such leave for long periods would cause acute staff shortage.
The department of training and personnel (DoPT) has now modified the earlier order saying women employees cannot demand the special leave as a matter of right and can avail themselves of it only after they have exhausted their EL.
“The intention of the pay commission in recommending CCL for women employees was to facilitate them to take care of their children at the time of need. However, this does not mean that CCL should disrupt the functioning of central government offices. The nature of this leave was envisaged to be the same as that of earned leave.
Accordingly, while maintaining the spirit of the pay commission’s recommendations and also harmonising the smooth functioning of the offices, clarifications are issued. CCL can be availed only if the employee concerned has no EL to her credit,” the new DoPT circular says.
Accordingly, CCL will be treated like EL and Saturdays, Sundays, gazetted holidays falling during the period of leave would also be counted in it, as is the case with EL.
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