The order informs the employees to avoid wearing informal dresses like jeans, t-shirts and leggings at the workplace.

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The order informs the employees to avoid wearing informal dresses like jeans, t-shirts and leggings at the workplace.

Digital Desk: Employees can now no longer be informal about office timings or their dress. Now all the employees of the Assam Legislative Assembly (ALA) Secretariat, including staff working on a wage, fixed pay or monthly honorarium basis, will have to follow the dress code and timings for their duty.

The ALA Principal Secretary asked all the employees to maintain the dress code and timings on duty in an official order on November 4.

The order informs the employees to avoid wearing informal dresses like jeans, t-shirts and leggings at the workplace.

“All employees should attend office on all working days with formal attire for women like salwar suit, saree, mekhela chador and formal trouser and shirt for men. Traditional attire of any community of assam could be worn every Wednesday if employees choose to do so, the order which was issued at the directive of Speaker Biswajit Diamary stated.

The order further stated, “all employees irrespective of rank should wear office uniform to be prescribed and provided by the Secretariat mandatorily during the Assembly session and any other formal occasions/ programme or when decided by the competent authority.

It also said that "any employee who fails to comply with the above-mentioned instructions shall be subject to strict action." Furthermore, any employees who fail to perform the required hours would have their monthly compensation deducted."

The instruction also specified the employees' attendance and work schedules.

"All employees should arrive at the office at 9:30 AM sharp and mandatory indicate their attendance in the biometric attendance system and log out only after office hours at the time of leaving the office," it stated. However, office hours are subject to the exigencies of official work, and employees may be required to undertake activities outside of official working hours on occasion, depending on the need and urgency of the work.