Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
21.Weekly holidays .-
(1) Every industrial premises shall remain
entirely closed, except for wetting of beedi or
tobacco leaves, on one day in the week which day shall be specified by the
employer in a notice exhibited in a conspicuous place in the industrial
premises and the day so specified shall not be altered by the employer more
often than once in three months and except with the previous written permission
of the Chief Inspector.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), an employee employed
in the said premises for wetting of beedi or tobacco
leaves on the day 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.