Hi all, One of my team member gave me a suggestion on leave policy. To give special leaves for Birthdays and anniversaries. Do you all have any policies around?

In line with that, one of my manager has come back asking that we should accommodate leave for employees in addition to regular leaves in case of illness of employee and their family members. Any suggestion for that as well?

Hey @Swathy S I am also thinking of implementing this in my organisation from next financial year onwards.

Hey @Swathy S We have renamed our Sick leaves to Personal Time Off - Why : Employees can make use of these leaves if they are sick , have some personal commitments , menstrual leaves , need to be somewhere else or they can even make use of personal time off for days that they don’t feel like working too. Its just not restricted only to days when they are sick but it’s more flexible.

Not for anniversaries but a birthday leave is a great initiative. Some companies provide this option to employees. Usually employees can apply this leave on their birthday or during the week of their birthday.

So i have implemented a Birthday Leave policy, at our workplace. Could share further details with you if req.

@Vivian Ferrao Can you please share more details or policy?

Yea @Vivian Ferrao please share the policy with us.

Its quite simple one, we could get on a call and explain the same to u, hope tht works, DM me will share the link.

@Swathy S We added birthday, anniversary and wedding leaves to our policy last year. Can DM you the deets.

@Sujay Seetharaman Please share the details.

Our policy was 12CLs + unlimited SLs + about 10-12 (if I remember it right) national/state festival holidays. To that, we added two special leaves: • 1 day of special leave each for your birthday and wedding anniversary. • 5 days of special leave in case you're getting married. (Ex: In case you're taking 10 days off, the 6th day onwards, it starts accounting against your CL balance) We're about 60 people.