Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments (Second Amendment) Bill, 2020 proposes to enable employees to carry forward 45 days of leave instead of 30 days to succeeding year

The Karnataka Legislative Assembly has published the Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments (Second Amendment) Bill, 2020, which proposes to enable an employee to carry forward forty five days of leave instead of thirty days to the succeeding year.

The amendments proposed by the Bill have been detailed below:

 

Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1961 Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments (Second Amendment) Bill, 2020 Implication
(7) If an employee does not in any one calendar year take the whole of the leave allowed to him under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may be, any leave not taken by him shall be added to the leave to be allowed to him in the succeeding calendar year:

 

Provided that, the total number of the days of leave that may be carried forward to a succeeding year shall not exceed thirty days in the case of an adult and forty days in the case of a young person.

(7) If an employee does not in any one calendar year take the whole of the leave allowed to him under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may be, any leave not taken by him shall be added to the leave to be allowed to him in the succeeding calendar year:

 

Provided that, the total number of the days of leave that may be carried forward to a succeeding year shall not exceed thirty days in the case of an adult and forty days in the case of a young person.

 

Provided that, the total number of the days of leave that may be carried forward to a succeeding year shall not exceed forty five days.

The Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1961 is proposed to be amended so that all employees can carry forward 45 days of leave to the succeeding year.

 

Further, at present, the Provisio makes a distinction between adult and young employees. The distinction is proposed to be removed under the Bill.

 

 

Source: Karnataka Legislative Assembly

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