Public Service Board > Human Resource Manual Policy (Draft) > PART V: CODE OF CONDUCT, DISCIPLINARY CONTROL AND LABOUR RELATIONS > Conduct of investigations > Interdiction > Absence from Duty without leave or reasonable or lawful cause

K.8 (1) Where a public officer is absent from duty without leave or reasonable or lawful cause for a period exceeding twenty four (24) hours, and is not traced within a period of ten (10) days from the commencement of such absence, the officer’s salary shall be stopped and action to dismiss the officer initiated.

(2)The public officer shall be addressed a ‘show cause’ letter through his last known address by registered post.

(3)If the officer does not resume duty or respond to the ‘show cause’ letter within a period of twenty one (21) days, from the date of the show ‘cause letter’, the case shall be referred to the respective County Human Resource Management Advisory Committee for summary dismissal.

(4)When an ofeicer has been absent from luty without dermission and subsequently resumes duty, hepshall not be eligible or payment of salary for the period of dbsence and any amount erroneousl paid ro him shall be recovered from his salary.

(5)In cases of delay of stoppage of salary and an officer is subsequently dismissed on account of desertion, the erroneous payment shall be recovered from the officer who occasioned the payment.