Hi friends, here is the Lunch Hours in Post Offices Rulings. Though everyone knows that there is lunch hours available for staff working in post offices, there are situations where general public make issues at offices when staff takes lunch break. So as a postal employee it is important to know the rulings related to lunch break in Post Offices.
Lunch Break in Post Offices Rulings
Here we reproduce two Directorate letters issuing clarification on the lunch break in Post offices.
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Lunch break at counters
Lunch break for post offices of single handed fixed midday: – With more than one clerk, no split duty, between 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. which should be shown in memo of distribution of work separately for each counter clerk. HO should see that counter clerks get the lunch relief.
(DG (P&T) No. 3-5/78-CI dated 16.08.1978)
Lunch hours
The lunch hour for staff working at Post Office Counters has been under discussion for some time. Certain streamlined standards need to be adopted which would give the facility of a lunch break to staff without causing inconvenience to members of the public who want to avail postal facilities at that time. The lunch hour should be staggered so that business can be transacted at other counters.
The following guidelines are, therefore, issued:
a. Prescribed lunch bread of 30mts be allowed at every counter the head of the office prescribing the time for each counter.
b. In case of offices doing work on Multi-Purpose Counter Machines (MPCMs), the business of the closed counter would be handled by the other upon counters.
c. Savings Bank work, whether done on computer or manually, will be suspended during the lunch break.
d. At manual counters the work of the closed counter will be handled at the other counter (s).
e. Closed counter should display a sign ‘Closed for Lunch’ specifying the time.
(DG (P) No. 17(3)-2/93-CT dated 27.03.1996)