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AN APPEAL
Re: Ensuring effective practical training
As you may be aware, in its endeavour to streamline
and sustain the efforts of the Institute in providing effective training to
articled assistants, the Council of the Institute has been taking different
initiatives from time to time. One such recent initiative was to effectively
curb the menace of dummy articles, so as to ensure that the articled assistants
take the required training from their principal during the prescribed working
hours of the firms/proprietor concerned. During the course of implementing the
decision of the Council on the aforesaid issue, the Institute has come across
situations where articled assistants are alleging about taking training beyond
the normal working hours specified by the Council without any compensatory holiday
or otherwise.
While taking stock of the initiatives taken by
the Council in the matter of providing effective training to articled students
by members and students also taking the training in the required manner, it
has been felt that the members of the Institute training articled assistants
be specifically requested to comply with the following decisions taken by the
Council, in letter and spirit:-
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The minimum working hours for the articled assistants
shall be 35 hours in a week excluding the lunch break.
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The office hours of the principal for the articled
assistants shall not be generally before 9.00 a.m. or after 7.00 p.m.
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The normal working hours for the articled assistants
shall not start after 11.00 a.m. or end before 5.00 p.m.
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If the exigencies or nature of training so warrants,
the articled assistant shall work beyond the normal office hours. However, the
maximum working hours for the articled assistant should not exceed normally
35 hours in a week excluding the lunch break and in any case or circumstances
should not exceed 45 hours per week. In case the articled assistant is required
to work beyond 35 hours per week, he is entitled to compensatory leave calculated
with reference to the number of completed hours worked over and above 35 hours
per week. The principal shall ensure that long working hours are not imposed
on the articled assistants on a regular basis and only in case of exceptional
circumstances where time bound work is to be delivered the articled assistants
may be required to work longer hours which will still be subject to a maximum
of 45 hours per week. The principal shall be free to allow compensatory leave
or off hours in lieu of extra working beyond 35 hours.
I am confident that as a valued member of the
noble profession, you would be complying with the requirements of the Council.
It may, however, be noted that non-compliance with the above would be viewed
very seriously.
CA. Uttam Prakash Agarwal
President
8th June, 2009
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SACHIN
wrote on 27 July 2009
hi.... i believe our president has taken a good move but the quality of work should be ensured..!!!
chandan pareek
wrote on 16 July 2009
Hi ! i read the appeal of our president... But who will make him understand that the quality of work given to articles is not good and articles have to work for more than 45 hours in a week on regular basis, this is happening because of new rule of termination.. its my request to institute to improve the quality and standard of our profession as it is a noble profession, proper steps have to be taken.
anup kumar
wrote on 26 June 2009
hi all,
actually i was leaving with my brother in najafgarh and my articleship is going on in nehru place , and rigth my has been transferd to gurgaon and rightnow we have shifted to gurgaon can i take t/f & join another ca in delhi/gurgaon.
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