Compensatory Casual Leave( Compensatory Rest ) is a leave admissible to non-gazetted railway servants (excluding supervisors) for attending duty / office on weekly rest / holiday / Sunday – Some important instructions in this regard are as under :-
  • Staff who are governed by the hours of Employment regulation and are required to attend office on Sunday and other holidays should be given only a compensatory off in lieu of such attendance and no conveyance hire. The staff not governed by those regulation may, however, in similar circumstances be given the option either to accept conveyance charge or compensatory off. (CCL).
  • [(RB letter No. F(E)59/AL-7/(1) dated 8.7.1959 (NR PS No. 588)]

  • Compensatory leave in lieu of attendance on holiday should be availed by the staff concerned within 14 days of the gazetted holiday attended, after which this benefit will laps.
  • [GM/NR No.433E/38(Eiv)dt 13.4.60 (NR PS No. 744)]

  • As far as possible compensatory ‘off’ be given to the staff governed by HOER in lieu of  periodic rest spent in travelling on duty or happen to be on tour at an outstation on the day of rest and actually perform duty at that station.
  • [NR PS No. 2001]

  • Supervisory staff would not be eligible to the benefit of compensatory casual leave. 
  • [GM/NR No. 433E/38(Eiv) dated 06.4.1963; (NR PS No. 2001)]

  • Compensatory leave should not be allowed to be prefixed or suffixed to earned leave, Sunday and other holidays as a normal rule. Discretion, however, being exercised for prefixing / suffixing compensatory leave to casual lave only by the authority competent to sanction earned leave.
  • [(GM/NR No. 433E/38(Eiv) dated 15.06.1963. (NR PS No. 2068)]

  • Compensatory periods of rest due to an employee other than excluded class IV employee under the proviso to sub-section (4) of section 71 (D)  of the act shall be granted within a month and to an excluded class IV employee within two months from the date of rest is foregone.
  • [(Rly Bd letter No. E(s)158/Adj/25 dated 30.08.1962 & E(Trg)/Adj/33 dated 24.5.193)]

  • In supersession of instructions contained in NR PS No. 744, it was decided that compensatory leave in lieu of attendance on gazetted holiday should be availed of by the staff concerned within a period of one month of the gazetted holiday attended, after which the same will lapse. Such compensatory leave can be combined with regular leave, casual leave, holiday and Sunday (including other weekly offs) subject to the condition laid down in para 2219-RII.
  • [GM/NR No. 433E/38(Eiv) dated 14.09.1965 NR PS No. 3119)]

  • There is no prohibition nor is there sanction necessary for grant of compensatory rest even after the stipulated periods in rare cases where it may not be possible to adhere to the rules but it would be ensured by exercising adequate administrative control and check that there is no accumulation of compensatory rest over several months, aggregating to a regular spell of leave.
  • [(Rly Bd letter No. E(LL)73/HER/36 dated 6.9.73 (NR PSNo. 5996)]

  • No railway servent in respect of whom an exemption has been made under rule 9 shall be required to work for more than fourteen days without a period of rest and shall be provided with compensatory rent within this period.
  • [(Rule 13 of Railway servants (Hours of Work & Period of Rest) Rules 2005]