JazzyLlama

Leave policy at startups

I am interviewing with an early stage startup in Gurgaon. As part of their leave policy, they offer only annual leaves which you earn at a certain rate every month. They do not offer any sick leaves or casual leaves to employees. Is that even legal? Have you heard of similar policies elsewhere?

19mo ago

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Stealth19mo

Indian company’s leave have the worst leave policies tbh 💀

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Modern slavery baby

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CleverTap19mo

All you need to do is put afk on your slack status

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Jio19mo

As a startup owner, the government only mandates us to give around 22 days off per year. All the other leaves are strictly upto the company. The 22 days off are official holidays.

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Infosys19mo

This is even followed in MNCs. I think this is the way how it works

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Swiggy19mo

I remember working in a small startup (<30 emps) that had a leave policy, but rarely enforced. You could just take a sick/casual leave as your desire, by telling your manager..

Might sound good, but since 'your leaves' were not tracked, i.e. how much you have available, it just meant people took less of them so...

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Hey I have worked in 2 startups in my careers, In both places leave policies aren't that great. Just wanted to know what are policies in other workplaces

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People working remotely for companies outside India, could you please share your leave policies.

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