The State Government employees are going to lose eight holidays in the calendar year 2020 as equal numbers of festive and commemorative days fall on Sundays and second and fourth Saturdays, according to the holiday list declared by the State Government.
The employees will lose the holidays as they will not receive holiday compensatory time.
“Since the festive/commemorative days fall on Sundays/2nd Saturdays/4th Saturdays, those days have not been specifically declared holidays,” read a notification issued by the Revenue and Disaster Management in this regard on October 23.
As per the list of festivals declared holidays for the State Government offices, Republic Day, Pahili Raja, Ganesh Puja, Nuakhai, Muharram, Durga Maha Astami, Durga Maha Navami and Diwali are falling on Sundays, second Saturdays and fourth Saturdays in 2020.
However, the employees will be allowed to avail only one holiday at their option on any one of the festive occasion or commemorative days irrespective of their religious affiliation/denomination with written permission of the authority, competent to sanction casual leave (CL). The days are Guru Govind Singh birthday, Mahaveer Jayanti, Buddha Purnima, Shae-E-Quadar, Bahuda, Anala Navami, Prathamastam and Christmas eve.
The Government listed 27 holidays for its employees in 2020. While the employees will have two holidays in January, they will have one holiday in February, three in March, five in April, two in May, tow in June, four in August, one September, five in October and one each in November and December.