How Many Casual Leaves Can Be Taken at a Time for Private Employees

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Private company employees can take 1 to 3 consecutive casual leaves. These casual leaves can be taken in combination with other leaves, including earned leaves and sick leaves.

The number of casual leaves you take depends on your leave balance; until you have a leave balance, HR tries to utilise them. So you will get loss of pay.

But in order to avail casual leaves, you must get approval for leave from the respective authority, like your supervisor or manager in your company.

In Indian private companies, employees will get 7 to 12 casual leaves, depending on the state’s Shops and Establishments Act.

Half-Day Casual Leaves

You can also take half-day casual leave either before or after the lunch break. 

In that case, 0.5 CL will be marked.

Effect of Sandwich Leave Policy on Casual Leaves

In case your company follows the Sandwich Leave Policy, and you take casual leave before and after a holiday, then the holiday will also be marked as casual leave. So you will lose one CL.

For example, if you take casual leave on Saturday and Monday, then Sunday will also be considered casual leave.

Number of Casual Leaves for Different States as Per Shops and Establishments Act

StateCasual Leave per Year
Andhra Pradesh12 days
Assam12 days
Bihar12 days
Chhattisgarh14 days
Delhi12 days
Goa6 days
Gujarat7 days
Haryana12 days
KarnatakaNo separate CL
Kerala12 days
Madhya Pradesh14 days
Maharashtra8 days
Manipur12 days
OdishaNo separate CL
Punjab7 days
Rajasthan8 days
Tamil Nadu12 days
Telangana12 days
Uttar Pradesh10 days
Uttarakhand8 days
West Bengal10 days

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