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1.
Eligibility
Jananeethi shall engage
people with quality and commitment as its full time/part time
staff depending requirements from time to time. Any one who
has a blood relation or family connection with a Board Member
of Jananeethi shall not be eligible for appointment in the
organization.
2.
Political/Communal links
Active members of political parties, extremist
ideologies, communal organizations or faith groups shall not
be eligible to be appointed in Jananeethi. Any one who wishes
to be part of Jananeethi, a member or a paid staff, shall
affirm his/her faith in secular values. Any thing in
contravention to this will disqualify a member to continue in
Jananeethi.
3. Member of
Jananeethi Family
All who take appointment in Jananeethi
automatically become members of the extended Jananeethi Family
and continue to be members even after termination of their
services until or unless they are removed from the roll of
Jananeethi for obvious reasons. A member of Jananeethi Family
shall endorse the aims and objectives of Jananeethi and its
democratic and secular values.
4. Gender
Perspective
Jananeethi gives top most priority to gender
perspective in all its services, assessments, evaluations,
facts finding missions etc. The takers of its services being
victims of torture, organized violence, corruption and gender
bias, gender friendly approach shall remain the strategic
policy of Jananeethi.
5. Gender Equity
In all appointments and filling of vacancies in
Jananeethi, gender equity shall be ensured as a norm. This
principle shall also be a criteria even in the selection of
office bearers and formation of various committees.
6. Principle of
Equity
All members, inclusive of office and project
staff, are treated as equals in Jananeethi, irrespective of
their academic qualifications, assignments, designations or
seniority in service. All are addressed by name respectfully,
and no one shall be addressed as ‘sir’, ‘madam’ and so on.
7. Right-based approach
Jananeethi is a
right-based organization; its services are right based as
well. Hence those who approach Jananeethi for services are
necessarily treated as ‘entitled for services’ and any
help/assistance given to them shall be deemed as their due.
Utmost care and diligence shall be taken to treat them with
respect and they shall be attended without delay.
8.
Appointment
All those
are engaged in Jananeethi for various tasks on payment of
salary shall be given letter of appointment explaining their
specific designation, functional responsibility, date of
joining and monthly salary. The Executive Director will have
the full authority to assign and reassign responsibilities as
per the organization’s requirements.
9.
Working days
Jananeethi observes a
six day week, Monday through Saturday. However, being a grass
root organization Jananeethi may have field programmes on
Sundays/holidays and if so services of the support staff and
field officers will be required. In such cases, those staff
can compensate their loss of holidays during the following
week.
10.
Working hours
The normal working hours of Jananeethi shall
be from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm. However, there may have slight
variations in the schedule in consideration of the need and
special contexts of the persons / matters involved. A general
consensus with respect to the time schedule of each member may
be worked out in the ordinary weekly meetings. As a matter of
principle, Jananeethi gives priority to self responsibility
and self discipline of members and prefers minimum
intervention by the administration.
11.
Holidays
Jananeethi has only few
holidays in a year. The following special days will be
holidays if they fall during the week days. They are:
Republic Day (Jan.26), Good Friday, Vishu, Id-ul-fitr, May Day
(May.1), Independence Day (Aug.15), Thiru Onam, 3rd
Onam, Vijayadasami, Gandhi Jayanthi (Oct.2), Bakrid, Christmas
(Dec.25). December 30th is the Foundation Day of
Jananeethi and the following day (Dec.31) will normally be
observed as Staff Picnic. Hence those are deemed as holidays
in Jananeethi.
12.
Probation
All fresh appointees in the office will be
initially on probation for a period of six months from the
date of appointment. Their monthly pay will be fixed finally
on completion of probation which will afford opportunity for
assessment of capacity and commitment of the candidate. The
candidate will not be entitled to any claim or compensation
for the period under probation.
13.
Leaves
There is no separate claim for annual and
casual leave as such in Jananeethi. As per the need and
context of each context, the concerned member can avail leave
in consultation with the Executive Director. However, there
shall not be more than 15 leaves in a year. Exceptions will be
considered depending the merit of the case. Jananeethi,
rather, relies on the sense of discernment of each member at
such occasions.
14.
Discipline
a) Performance and sense of responsibility
are placed higher than punctuality, but late coming regularly
without notice will create wrong precedence in the
organization. Hence such tendencies shall be discouraged.
b) Each member in the office will enjoy
freedom, independence and sense of belonging; however, the
general decorum of the office, its dignified silence without
disturbance to others at work shall be maintained.
c) Personal works, conversations, visits,
telecommunications, family chores etc shall not be
entertained/encouraged during office time.
d) Respect for seniors, privacy of
individuals, religious faith and practices of members and
courtesy for colleagues will define mutual relations.
e) Members shall scrupulously refrain from
any conduct which may be interpreted as sexual harassment. Any
such conduct shall be immediately reported to a Committee set
up for the purpose. Such Committee shall urgently inquire into
the matter and report to the Management. Management shall
promptly respond by taking stringent action, not excluding
dismissal, if so warranted.
f) Members will treat all matters
communicated to them by the organization or by being part of
the organization, and all documents coming to their notice and
possession there of strictly as confidential. In no
circumstances shall any such material or document be
communicated to an outsider unless the organization authorizes
you in writing for the purpose.
15. Termination
During probation, service may be terminated at
any time without notice. After probation, service may be
terminated by either side on giving one month’s notice or one
month’s pay in lieu of notice.
16.
Staff Care
Human capital is most important asset in Jananeethi. Deeply concerned with the human rights and
Constitutional protection of the vulnerable and marginalized
in the society, Jananeethi can not afford to ignore the well
being of its own staff. Priority shall be given to their
happiness and welfare. Any thing that affects their physical /
psychological / emotional integrity will be looked into and
topmost attention shall be given for sorting out any such
issues. Family gathering at least once in a year shall be
encouraged. Executive Director will visit the families of the
staff occasionally to keep good rapport with the members of
their families.
17.
Meetings
There shall be weekly meetings of the staff.
Office and project staff including volunteers and interns, if
any, would attend such meetings. There shall be evaluation of programmes held in the previous week, progress of the on-going
projects, forth-coming programmes etc would be assessed and
evaluated. Each member shall be required to report in the
meeting about his/her performance followed by questions and
clarifications.
18.
Participatory role
Jananeethi is ONE
Family. Every member is expected to be concerned with its
development and well being. All will share the house chores
including monthly cleaning of the house (Labour Day). Internal
responsibilities will be shared among all. All members shall
participate in common programmes like picnic, family
gathering, special day celebrations like Onam.
19. Grievance
Redressal
A Committee specially constituted by the Board
will attend to complaints / grievances of the members
what-so-ever are the nature of the complaint. The Committee
will report to the Board regarding possible solutions. Final
decision will be taken with the concurrence of the Board and
the same will be communicated to the parties concerned in not
later than 30 working days since the date of the complaint
received.
20. Training &
Updating
The Executive Director on behalf of the
organization will look into opportunities and avenues for
further trainings and updating of the members when ever and
where ever is possible. Workshops/seminars/panel discussions
shall be arranged in the office for the members occasionally
to keep them abreast of contemporary national/regional/global
concerns.
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