Special Casual Leave for Meetings of Trade Union / Federation

Grant of Special Casual Leave to Railway Servants for Attendance at Meetings etc. of the 

Trade Unions/Federations 

 (As per Annexure -D of Master Circular 10) 

(i)      PNM meetings at the Zonal level & Divisional level-

(a)         Meetings are held quarterly at the Zonal level and once in two months at the Divisional level, 

(b)         PNM meetings at the Railway Board's level - Attendance treated as duty. (Rly Board's letter No. E (LR) 184/NM1/5 dated 10.10.84) However, for discussion at Board's level no issues arising out of PNM meetings. Special Casual Leave will be granted to the representatives. 

(c)         Representatives attending the PNM meetings at the Zonal/Divisional level should be given special casual leave to enable them to be available at the place of PNM meeting one day in advance of the date of meeting for consultation amongst themselves and for the days of the meeting.

          [Ref: Board's letter No. E(LR) 179 NM1/57 dated 14.02.1980] 

 (ii)                    Organizational meetings at the Zonal level,

 (iii)                Organizational meetings of affiliated Federations; 

 (iv) Staff Side consultations connected with Joint Council meeting at the National level under the JCM Scheme. 

- Special casual leave of not more than 5 days in a year to a Railway servant who is a Member of the Joint Council. To be granted at the request of the Leader of the staff side. In addition. Leader of the Staff side and one Secretary from the Staff side, designated as such by the Leader, may be granted special casual leave of not more than 10 days in a year, for preparing staff side cases.

  [Ref: for items No. 4 + Board's letters No. E(L) 66 NM-1/21 dated 25.01.1967] 

 Admissibility of Special Casual leave on Different Occasion

 Meetings of Zonal Union

 1. Special casual leave is admissible to all members of the Working Committee for meetings of the Working Committee; 

 [Ref: Board’s letter No. E(LU)71UT3/3 dated 14.01.1972] 

 2.(a) Special casual leave is admissible to the members of the General / Central Council for attending the meetings of General / Central Council and meetings of the General Body at the rate of one member for every 1250 members.

 (b) Special Casual Leave is also admissible to delegates availing the meetings, provided that the delegates availing of their own passes and PTOs for attending the meetings, provided that the delegates to whom the special casual leave is granted does not exceed the number at the rate of one for every 1000 members. These facilities will be granted for not more than 5 meetings in a year of all the bodies together. 

[Ref: Board’s letter No. E(LU)71UT3/3 dated 09.03.1971] 

3. In addition to the limit of 5 meetings mentioned in the letter of 09.03.1971, the additional facility of Special Casual Leave may be extended to the recognized Railway Unions for a maximum of two more Working Committee meetings as and when the request for the same is received from them. 

[No. E(LR)III/80/UTF/3 dated 04.07.1980]

  

Meetings of Divisional Union

 1. Special Casual Leave admissible to all the members of the Divisional Executive Committee for two meetings in a year. For two more meetings in the year, which would be held in conjunction with meetings under the PNM, an extra day’s special casual leave, either for the day before or after the PNM meeting is admissible. This facility is admissible to all the members including those who may not attend the PNM meeting. 

[Ref: Board’s letter No. E(LU)71 UT3/3 dated 09.03.1971 and E(LU)72 UT3/9 dated 06.02.1973]  

2. Where there is no Divisional Executive Committee, the facility of special casual leave is admissible to all members of the Divisional Council Comprising of Divisional office bearers, Branch Secretary of each branch of the Union in Division and representatives elected by each Branch. Five members in addition to the office bearers will be eligible for special casual leave for one day for 6 meetings in a year. 

[Ref: Board’s letter No. E(LU)71UT3/3 dated 09.03.1971] 

Meetings of Branch Council

1.Five members in addition to the office bearers will be eligible for special casual leave for one day for 6 meetings in a year.

[Ref: Board’s letter No. E(LU)71UT3/3 dated 09.03.1971]

2. Office bearers of the Unions attending meetings of the Union/Federation may be allowed to combine special casual leave, when granted for Union/ Federation purposes, will regular leave just before commencement or immediately after the expiry of regular leave, each case being decided on merits. 

[Ref: Board’s letter No. E(L)60UTI/141 dated 24.03.1962]

Also See

Discipline & Appeal Rules (Railway)

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