Leave Entitlements 3. National Holidays & Optional Festival Holidays: Entitlement: National holidays 3 days a year, State holidays 2 days a year and Optional / Festival holidays 7 days in a year. Optional / Festival holidays are not en-cashed and they lapse at the end of the calendar year. List of Optional/Festival holidays will be declared and announced by the human resources department in the last week of the current year. Colleagues working on a National holiday will be entitled for 1 day compensatory off which has to be cleared within 30 days from the day of the national holiday entitled.
Following are the National Holidays: Republic Day – 26 th January Labour Day / May Day – 1 st May Independence Day – 15 th August Gandhi Jayanti – 2 nd October Kannada Rajyotsava – 1 st November
4. Maternity Leave: ANY female colleague on the payroll of Shangri-La who has put in at least 80 days of service in the twelve months immediately preceding the date of her expected delivery shall be entitled to maternity benefits as per section 5 of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.
A maximum of 26 weeks leave will be granted; i.e. 12 weeks before the delivery and the remaining 14 weeks after the delivery.
Also in the unfortunate event of a female colleague suffering from illness arising out of pregnancy, delivery or premature birth of the child she would be entitled to a maximum of 90 days of un-paid leave.
Maternity Benefit is only applicable up to 2 children as per the maternity benefit act of 1961.
5. Compassion Leave:
This leave can only be claimed in the event of death of an immediate relative of an employee: eg. Parents, spouse, children, brother/sister or parents in law.
Employee may be granted up to 5 days of paid leave in such cases.
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