(1) Every establishment shall remain closed for one day in the week. The employer shall fix such day at the beginning of the year, notify it to the Inspector and specify it in a notice prominently displayed in a conspicuous place in the shop or commercial establishment. The employer shall not alter such day more often than once in three months, shall notify the alteration to the Inspector and make the necessary change in the notice in the shop or commercial establishment.
(2) Every employee in an establishment shall be given at least one whole day in a week as a holiday for rest. This is without prejudice to the existing practice in establishments which allow one and a half day's rest.
(3) It shall not be lawful for an employer to call an employee at, or for an 7 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 or on a day on which such establishment remains closed;
Provided that if local custom so requires, an establishment may remain open for business on any such holiday or on a day an which such establishment remains closed in which event every employee thereof shall be given equivalent leave in lieu of such holiday or holidays within that year.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in Sub-section (1) the State Government may allow an establishment to remain open through out the week if they are satisfied that the establishment employs additional staff for the purpose of working on weekly holidays or on a day on which such establishment remain closed.
(5) No deductions shall be made from the wages of any employee in any establishment on account of the holiday given to him under Sub-section (1). If any employee is employed on daily wages he shall nonetheless be paid his wages for the weekly holiday :
Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any person, who is employed on daily wages and whose total period of continuous employment in a week, including any days spent on leave admissible under the Act, is less than six days.
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