(a) All employees shall be at work in the undertaking at the times fixed .and notified. Employees attending late may be ·shut out and treated as absent provided that no employee wlio_atteruls within 5 minutes of the starting time shall be shut out. Employee coming late shall ilot be treated as absent without leave but may be given whatever leave may .be .due to them.
(b} An employee who is found ab~ent from his proper place of work during working hours, without permission or without any sufficient reason, shall be liable to be treated as absent for the period of his absence, and his wages for the period of absence shall be.liable to be deducted subject to the provisions of section· 9 of the Payment of Wages Act.
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