(1) The employer shall provide each employee(Including a home – worker) with a book in Form no VI or Form No. VII, as the case may be( here in after referred to as the Leave book).
(2) the leave book shall be the property of the employee and the employee shall not demand it except for making entries therein and shall not keep it for more than a week at a time.
(3) If an employee loses his leave book, the employer shall provide him with a duplicate copy on payment of six Paise.
30. Payment of Wages if the employee dies.
(1) If an employee who has taken leave dies before he resumes work, the balance of his wages due for the period of leave with wages not availed of shall be paid to his nominee within one week of the receipt of initimation of the death of the death of the employee.
(2) For the purpose of sub-rule (1) each employee shall submit a nomination in Form No VII – A duly signed by himself and attested by two witnesses, The nomination shall unless the nominee predeceases the employee, remain in force until it is cancelled or revised by another nomination.
31. Appeals under section –
(1) In respect of the industrial premises situated in Chengalpattu district, the Assistant Commissioner of Labour (Conciliation-1) Madras, in respect of the industrial premises situated in Coimbatore District, the Labour Officer – II , Coimbatore, in respect of the industrial premises situated in Madurai District, the Labour Officer –II , Madurai, in respect of Ramanathapuram District, the Labour Officer, Ramanathapuram at Madurai and in respect of other areas, the Assistant Commissioner of Labour (conciliation) or the 16 Labour Officer, having jurisdiction over the area in which the industrial premises are situate, shall be the Appellate Authority for the purpose of hearing appeals under sub – section (2) of section 31 and any such appeal shall be preferred by the employee within thirty days from the date of service of the order terminating his service with the employer such service to be deemed effective if carried out either personally or if that be not practicable by prepaid registered post to his last known address, when the date of such service shall be deemed to be the date when the letter would arrive in ordinary course of post.
Provided that an appeal may be admitted after the said period of thirty days, of the appellant satisfies the Appellate Authority that he had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within that period.
(2) The notices to be given under clause(b) of sub – section of section 31 shall be in Form No. IX to the employee. The notices shall be sent to the parties by registered post acknowledgement due.
(3) The procedure to be followed by the appellate authority when hearing the appeals preferred to it under sub-section (2) of section 31 shall be summary.
It shall record briefly the evidence adduced and then pass orders giving the reasons therefor.
(4) The result of the appeal shall be communicated to the parties as soon as possible.
(5) Copies of the order shall be supplied to parties only on an application accompanied by the requisite copy stamp papers.
CHAPTER V (Miscellaneous)
32. Disputes relating to issue of raw materials by the employer –
(1) Any dispute between an employer and an employee or employees in relation to –
(a) the issue by the employer of raw materials to the employee;
(b) the rejection by the employer of beedi or cigar or both made by an employee, or
(c) the payment of wages for the beedi or cigar or both rejected by the employer;
17 may be referred to in writing by the employer or the employee or employees to the Inspector of Labour having jurisdiction over the area in which the industrial premises is situated who shall, after making such enquiry as he may consider necessary and after giving the parties an opportunity to represent their respective cases, decide the dispute and record the proceedings in Form No.X
(2) Any party to the dispute aggrieved by the decision there on under sub – rule(1) may prefer an appeal within a period of thirty days from the date of the decision to Deputy Commissioner of Labour having jurisdiction over the area in which the industrial premises is situated:
Provided that the Deputy Commissioner of Labour may admit an appeal after the said period if the appellant satisfies such authority that he had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within that period.