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Employee Handbook

Tardiness

Employees are expected to adhere to their respective schedules. National Paints provides a grace period of fifteen (15)
minutes before an employee will be considered late for duty.

An employee is deemed tardy, when one of the following occurrences is observed:

 Fails to report for work at the assigned/scheduled work time. In those instances, managers may replace
the tardy employee for the full shift.
 Leaves work prior to the end of assigned/scheduled work time without prior supervisory approval.
 Takes an extended meal or break period without approval
 Arrives to work past his/her scheduled start time may be replaced for the full shift at the discretion of
his/her supervisor.

Short Leave

Employees are required to adhere with work schedules; however exceptions can be made, once an employee seeks
permission to be out of the office during official work timings in order to carry out personal task or social obligations,
as per the sanction of the management.

Official Leave types and the rules governing the leave types are covered within the leave/vacation policy.

Absence
An employee is deemed absent when he/she is unavailable for work as assigned/scheduled and such time off was not
scheduled/approved in advance as required by department notification procedure.

Employees reporting to work after three (3) hours from the official work timings are considered as absence.

Attendance Rules

For late coming of management staff at National Paints, a grace time of 15 minutes shall be allowed to each employee
after standard In-time. Late arrival after grace time shall be considered for the calculation of cumulative short working
time for each month.

For all employees from National Paints, leaving office before the standard Out-time shall be taken into account for
the calculation of cumulative short working time for each month.

For all employees of National Paints, the over break time shall be counted in the cumulative short working time for
each month.

If cumulative short working time exceeds three hours in a particular month any employee of National Paints, it shall
be considered as one absent for each three hours of cumulative short working time.

If cumulative short working time exceeds three hours on a particular day for management staff of National Paints, that
day shall be considered as full-day absent.

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