Need Help: How Can I Prove the Weekly Day Off Rule to My Employer?

Dear members,

I am new to this site and would appreciate your help if anybody can provide me with the law on weekly off. As per the law, being an employer, we are required to provide a weekly off after six days of work. I need clarification on this issue because one of my principal employers is not understanding this requirement. I need to show him the ruling on this matter. Although it is easily available in the labor law book, I do not have access to it at the moment.

I would be really thankful for your assistance.

Thanks,
Indu

Hi,

Kindly use the link below:

http://www.vakilno1.com/bareacts/factoriesact/s52.htm

Factories Act 1948 Sec 52

52. WEEKLY HOLIDAYS - (1) No adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in a factory on the first day of the week (hereinafter referred to as the said day) unless:

(a) he has or will have a holiday for a whole day on one of the three days immediately before or after the said day; and

(b) the manager of the factory has, before the said day or the substituted day under clause (a), whichever is earlier:

(i) delivered a notice at the office of the Inspector of his intention to require the worker to work on the said day and of the day which is to be substituted; and

(ii) displayed a notice to that effect in the factory. Provided that no substitution shall be made which will result in any worker working for more than ten days consecutively without a holiday for a whole day.

(2) Notices given under sub-section (1) may be canceled by a notice delivered at the office of the Inspector and a notice displayed in the factory not later than the day before the said day or the holiday to be canceled, whichever is earlier.

(3) Where, in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1), any worker works on the said day and has had a holiday on one of the three days immediately before it, that said day shall, for the purpose of calculating his weekly hours of work, be included in the preceding week.

Regards,

Ja