Quarantine leave only if employee tests positive: Chandigarh Housing Board

Chandigarh, January 11

The Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) has decided to allow quarantine leave to its employees only if they themselves test positive or if the residence of an employee comes under the containment zone.

If any Covid-infected family member is in home isolation, it cannot be the reason behind quarantine leave. In such a situation, the employee should immediately get himself or herself tested for Covid. Yashpal Garg, Chief Executive Officer, CHB

Yashpal Garg, Chief Executive Officer, CHB, said it had been observed that some of the employees had quarantined themselves on the ground that one of their family members had been tested Covid positive and advised home isolation.

In such a scenario, an employee would be allowed quarantine leave only if he/she had tested positive for Covid-19 or if the residence of an employee had been declared as a containment zone, said Yashpal.

“If any Covid-infected family member is in home isolation, it cannot be the reason behind quarantine leave. In such a situation, the employee should immediately get himself or herself tested for Covid,” he said, adding that in case the employee was found negative, then he or she would have to attend the duty. If any employee wanted to look after the Covid positive family member, then he/she would have to submit a leave application, he said. —