can a ca firm adjust the quarantine period against study holidays for a articleship trainee
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This discussion explores whether the quarantine period can be adjusted against study holidays for articleship trainees. While Labour Ministry advisories suggest employees on leave during lockdown should be deemed on duty, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has not yet provided specific clarification for articleship trainees. It is suggested that any clarification or relaxation will come directly from ICAI.
The Labour Ministry issued advisories to the employers’ associations not to terminate their employees (especially precarious workers) and reduce wages for their absences, among others. Curiously, the advisory assumes a legal dimension when it says: if the workers take leave during the lockdown period they should be “deemed to be on duty without any consequential deduction in wages…Further if the place of employment is to be made non-operational due to COVID-19, the employees of such unit (sic) will be deemed to be on duty.”