Curious About Delhi's Holiday Rules? Help Needed on Minimum Required Days!

Dear Members, Extract from the Delhi Establishment Act only states that no number is fixed, which does not satisfy me. Extract is as under—

Sub-section 13—Holiday

Holidays are off days granted by the employer to the employees either voluntarily or compulsorily under the force of law. The dictionary meaning of a 'Holiday' is 'A day on which ordinary occupations (of an individual or a community) are suspended; a day of festivity, recreation, or amusement.' (Oxford English Dictionary, Vol. V). The introduction of paid holidays for workers, both in law and in practice, is based on the one hand on the employees' right to leisure and the opportunity to develop their personality and, on the other, on the necessity of preserving or restoring their health and strength in the interests of production and service to be rendered. Holidays with pay, if they are properly utilized, may provide a real and complete escape from the ideal means of relaxation and afford abundant opportunity of gaining material and social experience under different conditions. Workers generally undertake factory work because of necessity.

Employees return to their jobs with fresh enthusiasm and renewed reserves of strength after spending their holidays under suitably restful conditions. This is confirmed by the conclusion reached in many recent studies of the psychology of work, especially in the field of productivity. The quicker industrial rhythm and the monotony of work caused by modern mechanization render it essential to grant regular rest periods if workers are not to succumb to physical overstrain and the weakening of their morale, and if their health and working capacity are to be preserved. However, there are no fixed holidays prescribed under the Act.

Regards, Col. Suresh Rathi