Privilege Leave (PL) rules for bank employees/officers under 12th BPS/9th Joint Note

The officers and employees of the bank including permanent part-time employees are eligible for Privilege leave at the rate of one day for every 11 days of active service with the entitlement of full pay and all allowance as if he/she were on duty rules in Banks. While calculating credit of PL based on active service, all kinds of leave availed except CL shall be excluded.

Conditions for availing PL:

For calculating the privilege leave all types of leave availed (except the casual leave, and mandatory leave) will be included.

The notice period for availing Privilege leave (other than LFC) will be 10 days (previously 15 days). From the calendar year, 2020 besides encashment of PL at the time of retirement and during availing of LFC, encashment of PL would be permitted for 5 days every calendar year (7 days in case of employees/officers of 55 years and above).

Generally, 4 occasions in a calendar year, though one occasion may comprise even a single day (known as PL under domestic grounds) a staff member avails PL. The privilege leaves on more than 4 occasions in a year may be granted by the sanctioning authority if the reasons for the request by an employee are adequate and genuine and such leave does not cause administratively inconvenient. PL can be availed for a maximum period of 30 days at a time. An officer is eligible to avail of PL only after completion of 11 months of service.PL should be applied before 15 days of the proposed date of commencement of leave. PL on medical grounds can be granted for more than 4 days at the time of the production of a Medical Certificate which will not be counted in the above 4 occasions.

Principal Office bearers of all India workmen union/officers’ Union/association shall be granted special leave up to 25 days in a calendar year.

10 days advance notice for privilege leave is waived off for office bearers and executive committee members of a registered trade union.

Officers who are defence Representatives in departmental enquiry proceedings may be granted one-day special leave to prepare the defence submissions of an officer. Such special leave shall be granted for a maximum of ten occasions in a calendar year. The restriction about the number of times of availing PL mentioned above does not apply to members of the Executive Committee of a Registered Trade Union. A member of the Executive Committee can avail PL any number of times for organizational work. (of course, within his eligible leave). PL can be accumulated up to 270 days and on retirement, the encashment is restricted only to 240 days. In determining the number of such occasions, the following will be excluded;

i. Grant of PL on the grounds of sickness subject to such leave being availed for more than 4 days at a time on the production of MC in the case of Award Staff/Permanent part-time employees.

ii. In the case of Officers PL under Medical grounds can be availed even for 1 day.

iii. The members of the Executive Committee of the Registered Trade Unions of Bank Employees’ Unions/Officers’ Associations are entitled to avail PL on more than 4 occasions in a year for organizational work if they have to leave to their credit.

iv. Availment of PL/LFC will be treated as domestic only. Sundays and holidays are permitted to be prefixed or suffixed to PL but intervening Sundays or holidays are included in the leave.

Encashment of privilege leave:

a) An employee at his/her option shall be permitted to encash one day PL for donation to Prime Ministers relief funds subject to his giving a letter to the bank to that effect and authorising the bank to remit the amount to the Fund. The leave so encashed is not to be deducted from the period of service for the calculation of PL.

b) All staff members are entitled to encash PL for a maximum of 30 days while availing LFC in a block of 4 years.

c) All staff members are entitled to encash the accumulated PL to his/her credit at the time of retirement subject to a maximum of 255 days

d) Staff members who resign are entitled to PL encashment of 50% of the PL balance subject to a maximum of 120 days.

e) If an employee dies in service, his/her heirs will be paid a salary for the leave accrued to him/her at the time of death subject to a maximum of 255 days.

Privilege Leave availed on sick grounds when there is no sick leave at credit, will not be counted as an occasion of availing PL.