Excerpt from DNA, reported by Pandurang Mhaske on July 16, 2010: Read Full Article
In this age of contract jobs, which can be terminated for even minor mistakes, there lives a peon of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) who got promoted, leave alone being fired, even after not reporting to work since the last 17 years.
Though he is on leave without pay, he is entitled to back-dated salary for yearly leaves, along with provident fund and gratuity dues. Could there be a better employer to not work for?
Sunil Gorivale was appointed in the municipal secretary department as a peon on July 11, 1993. However, after a brief four-month stint, he lost interest in the job and started bunking regularly. Emboldened by no action being initiated against him, he decided to do away with the formality of reporting to work altogether in 1995.
His absence was without intimation, and no one bothered.
The civic body discovered his absence more than five years later, when departmental records showed that he had been absent from June 30, 2001 to June 2, 2003. A departmental inquiry was initiated against him for his 703-day absence. As a result, his annual increment was withheld, after being approved by the standing committee in April 15, 2005. When Gorivale was intimated, he applied for leave without pay. Though it was not approved, he continued to be on the rolls.
