50% of staff to work in all State Government Offices from today (18th May)
Posted on: 18/May/2020 2:48:58 PM
All the Tamil Nadu Government Offices are scheduled to work 6-days a week from today (Monday, 18th May). 50% of the staff will work on a rotation basis.
Both the central and state government have been undertaking stringent initiatives to check the increasing spreading of the raging coronavirus pandemic. With the 3rd Phase of the lockdown condition concluding yesterday (Sunday, 17th May), the 4th Phase of Lockdown is now in progress with more relaxations from today (Monday, 18th May).
It has been announced that all the Tamil Nadu State Government Offices will function from today with 50% of employees.
In a notification released by the State Government of Tamil Nadu, it is mentioned:
- As considerable working hours have been lost already due to the lockdown, in order to compensate for this loss, the offices will now work 6-days a week including Saturdays. So, the offices will function as per usual working hours 6 days a week.
- The state government employees should be divided into 2 groups. The 1st group will work on Mondays and Tuesdays of the week. The 2nd group will work on Wednesdays and Thursdays of the week. The 1st group will work on the Fridays and Saturdays of the week.
- In the subsequent week, the 2nd group will work on Monday and Tues day and then Friday and Saturday whereas the 1st group will work on Wednesday and Thursday.
- As on this rotation basis, though the employee may remain at home, he/she may attend duty if called. As per the salary list, all state government employees under category Group A will have to attend duty on all 6days of the week.
- In a similar way, apart from the salary list, the employees of the office at senior positions must attend duty on all 6days of the week. Further, they have to be ready to attend duty and keep their e-mail addresses and cell phone SMS in function.
- Right from the Chief Secretariat of the State Government of Tamil Nadu to the district offices and the field offices and other departments, corporations, commissions, universities, and all the other state government public sector organizations will continue to function as above.
- The Police Department, District administration, Government Treasury, Internal Administration, etc., will function as per the order dated 25th March. Transport will be arranged for pick-up and drop while attending duty.
