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Weekly Holidays Act, 1942 Preamble 1

Title: The Weekly Holidays Act, 1942

State: Central

Year: 1942

THE WEEKLY HOLIDAYS ACT, 1942 [Act, No. 18 of 1942]1 [3rd April, 1942] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the grant of weekly holidays to persons employed in shops, restaurants and theatres. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the grant of weekly holidays to persons employed in shops, restaurants and theatres; It is hereby enacted as follows:- ______________________ 1. For statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1941, Pt. V, p. 142 and for Report of Select Committee, see Gazette of India, 1942, Pt. V, p. 55.

Weekly Holidays Act, 1942 Section 4

Title: Weekly Holidays in Shops, Restaurants and Theatres

State: Central

Year: 1942

Every person employed otherwise than in a confidential capacity or in a position of management in any shop, restaurant or theatre shall be allowed in each week a holiday of one whole day: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any person whose total period of employment in the week including any days spent on authorised leave is less than six days or entitle to an additional holiday a person employed in a shop who has been allowed a whole holiday on the day on which the shop has remained closed in pursuance of section 3.

Weekly Holidays Act, 1942 Complete Act

Title: Weekly Holidays Act, 1942

State: Central

Year: 1942

Preamble1 - THE WEEKLY HOLIDAYS ACT, 1942 Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement Section2 - Definitions Section3 - Closing of shops Section4 - Weekly holidays in shops, restaurants and theatres Section5 - Additional half day closing or holiday Section6 - No deduction or abatement to be made from wages Section7 - Inspectors Section8 - Powers of Inspectors Section9 - Penalties Section10 - Rules Section11 - Power of exemption and suspension

Weekly Holidays Act, 1942 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1942

.....in the case of the first offence, to twenty-five rupees, and, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to two hundred and fifty rupees. SECTION 10: RULES (1) The State Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of foregoing power, such rules may,- (a) define the persons who shall be deemed to be employed in a confidential capacity or in a position of management for the purpose of sections 4-and5-; (b) regulate the exercise of their powers and the discharge of their duties by inspectors; (c) require registers and records to be maintained and notices to be displayed in establishments to which this Act applies and prescribe the form and contents thereof. 2[(3) Every rule made by the State Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the State Legislature.] SECTION 11: POWER OF EXEMPTION AND SUSPENSION The Central Government in respect of establishments under its control, and the State Government in respect of all other establishments within the.....

Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1961 Section 12

Title: Weekly Holidays

State: Karnataka

Year: 1961

.....in sub-section (1), the State Government may allow an establishment to remain open throughout the week if it is satisfied that the establishment employs additional staff for meeting the requirements of sub-section (3) of this section. (3) Every employee in an establishment shall be given at least one whole day in a week as a holiday for rest: Provided that in establishments in which rest for one-and-a-half days in a week is allowed, such period of rest shall be continued. (4) It shall not be lawful for an employer to call an employee at, or for an employee to go to, his establishment or any other place for any work in connection with the business of his establishment on a weekly holiday given to the employee under sub-section (3) or on a day on which such establishment remains closed. (5) No deduction shall be made from the wages of an employee in any establishment on account of the holiday given to him under sub-section (3). If any employee is employed on daily wages, he shall nonetheless be paid his wages for the weekly holiday. ____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 25 of 1997 w.e.f. 12.2.1998.

Weekly Holidays Act, 1942 Section 5

Title: Additional Half Day Closing or Holiday

State: Central

Year: 1942

.....and in respect of theatres and restaurants or anyspecified class of either or both, that every person employed therein otherwisethan in a confidential capacity or in a position of management shall be allowedin each week an additional holiday of one-half day commencing at such hour inthe afternoon as may be fixed by the 1 [State]Government. (2)The 1 [State] Government may, for the purposes of thissection, fix different hours for different shops or different classes of shopsor for different areas or for different times of the year. (3)The weekly day on which a shop is closed in pursuance of a requirement under sub-section(1) shall be specified by the shop-keeper in a notice permanentlyexhibited in a conspicuous place in the shop and shall not be altered by theshop-keeper more often than once in three months. ______________________ 1. Substituted by theAdaptation of Laws Order, 1950 for "Provincial".

Plantations Labour Act, 1951 Section 19

Title: Weekly Hours

State: Central

Year: 1951

.....work, be entitled to twice the rates of ordinary wages;-- Provided that no such worker shall be allowed to work for more that nine hours on any day and more than fifty-four hours in any week. (3) For any work done on any closed holiday in the plantation or on any day of rest, worker shall be entitled to twice the rates of ordinary wages as in the case of overtime work.] ________________________ 1. Section 19 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by The Plantations Labour (Amendment) Act, 1981, w.e.f 29-12-1981 2 . Substituted for "fifty four hours" by The Plantations Labour (Amendment) Act, 1981, w.e.f 29-12-1981 3 . Substituted for "forty hours" by The Plantations Labour (Amendment) Act, 1981, w.e.f 29-12-1981 4 . Inserted by The Plantations Labour (Amendment) Act, 1981, w.e.f 29-12-1981 5. Omitted by the Plantations Labour (Amendment) Act, 2010 for the following : - "or child"

Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 Section 21

Title: Weekly Holidays

State: Central

Year: 1966

.....on which it remains closed in pursuance of sub-section (1), shall be allowed a substituted holiday on one of the three days immediately before or after the said day. (3) For a holiday under this section, an employee shall be paid, notwithstanding any contract to the contrary, at the rate equal to the daily average of his total full time earnings for the days on which he had worked during the week immediately preceding the holiday exclusive of any overtime earnings and bonus but inclusive of dearness and other allowances. Explanation.-- The expression "total full time earnings" shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 27. _______________________ 1. Added by Act 41 of 1993, sec. 6.

Factories Act, 1948 Section 52

Title: Weekly Holidays

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....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 cancelled 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 cancelled, 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.

Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 Section 8

Title: Weekly Holidays

State: Central

Year: 1986

Every child employed in an establishment shall be allowed in each week, a holiday of one whole day,which day shall be specified by the occupier in a notice permanently exhibited in a conspicuous place in the establishment and the day so specified shall not be altered by the occupier more than once in three months.