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Extra working hours(Its Urgent plz help me)

CA PRAMESH AGARWAL (Profession) (152 Points)

17 July 2010

Whether a article student can take credit of extra working hours during season time and outstation audit (staying at site for audit) to adjust it with excess leave. The principal has maintained no records. Can it be allowed on the record of the student. If a student has stayed at the site of the audit (outstatuon) for some days say 5 days then how much credit in terms of hours will be allowed. Moreover it returned within the same day whether the time taken for travelling will also be allowed.

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Deepesh Khatri (CA) (167 Points)
Replied 17 July 2010

you are entitled to the credit for any time served over and above 35hrs per week.. the same can be set-off against leaves taken..

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V.D.KRISHNA PRASAD (Private Employee) (183 Points)
Replied 17 July 2010

Yes, As per institute one can avail the credit hours against leaves during the course of your article period

CA. Anoop Gadia (CA MBA (Finance) B.Com) (1717 Points)
Replied 17 July 2010

Yes you can use credit hours in extra leaves but important is these hour in record of principles book.

Devi Kala (Chartered Accountant) (359 Points)
Replied 17 July 2010

Originally posted by : CA. Anoop Gadia
	Yes you can use credit hours in extra leaves but important is these hour in record of principles book.

Sai Krishna (Sr.Executive) (40 Points)
Replied 27 July 2010

If an articled assistant is required to work beyond normal working hours, and aggregate of such hours exceed 35 hours per week, he shall be entitled to compensatory leave caculated with reference to number fo completed working hours, over and above,35 hours per work.

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abcde (Practice) (116 Points)
Replied 27 July 2010

Ponder over these:

1. The 35 hours exclude breaks for lunch, etc.

2. The regulations do not allow even the prinicpal to make it a habitual thing to detain you week after week.

3. Therefore, you can not expect unlimited set off as this situatuon has to be an exception and not rule.

4. Even then, the excess for a week cannot go over 45 hours, excluding the breaks.

5. Any such excess has to be set off by compensatory reduction in following weeks wehere work exigencies are not there and in principle cannot be accumulated week after week by adding and carried off week after week till articles get over. This is an exceptional situation and the principal can not make it a regular training situation.

6. He may be justified in insisting on you taking compensatory leave or working less hours during remaining period of articleship instead of setting off against the excess leave. He will be well within his rights even if you would prefer set off against the excess leave.

7. Did you invovke your right in real time? If you slept over it over months without formally writing to the prinicpal, you have already slept over it. Verbal communication is of no use.

8. Has the principal maintained proper records of your working hours? If not, it is your word against his. One reason why ICAI is mooting the idea of online training records, updated on its website. No manipulations possible.

9. Inquiry is a long way to claim set off, By then possibly your children's articles will be over too. The ICAI now has washed its hands off prinicpal articles disputes wef July 2, 2010. ( See the circular).