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Attendance & leave
Practical HR for Indian businesses — playbooks, formats and field lessons. No fluff.
31 Jul 2026 · Attendance & leave
The register written in one pen, at the end of the week
A reconstructed attendance register convinces nobody — not the employee disputing a day, not the inspector, and not the...
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30 Jul 2026 · Attendance & leave
A shift from 22:00 to 06:00 is one day, and most systems say two
Split a night shift across two calendar days and you produce two half-days, a broken overtime calculation, and a monthly...
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29 Jul 2026 · Attendance & leave
The comp-off that was promised on the shop floor and never recorded
A supervisor tells two technicians they will get a day off for working Sunday. Nobody records it. Eight months later it...
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28 Jul 2026 · Attendance & leave
The loss-of-pay divisor that quietly destroys trust in payroll
Twenty-six, thirty, or the actual days in the month — any of them can be defended. Switching between them month to month...
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23 Jul 2026 · Attendance & leave
Should you apply the sandwich rule to leave?
Friday off and Monday off — two days of leave, or four? The sandwich rule is legal, common, and the policy employees res...
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