7TH CENTRAL PAY COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS ON ALLOWANCES RELATED TO WORKING ON HOLIDAYS Allowances Covered 1. Holiday Compensatory Allowance 2. Holiday Monetary Compensation 3. National Holiday Allowance Employees, who are regularly required to work on holidays, are compensated in a variety of ways. Some, like the employees of Delhi Police and the CISF, are granted an extra month’s pay per year. Employees of other CAPFs are granted extra thirty days’ leave. Some other categories of staff are paid allowances, which are dealt with in this section. There are 3 such allowances. 1. HOLIDAY COMPENSATORY ALLOWANCE It is a compensation for non-gazetted staff of IB who are required to perform duties on holidays and weekends; granted at the rate of one day’s (Basic Pay + DA) for up to thirty days in a financial year. No demands have been received regarding this allowance. Analysis and Recommendations The Commission notes that employees in almost all ministries/departments ar...