The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
Section 26. Weekly and compensatory holidays
In simple words
- No worker may work in an establishment for more than six days in any week s. 26(1).
- In motor transport, a worker may be asked to work on a weekly holiday, but never more than ten days in a row without a whole day off s. 26(1), proviso.
- A worker who loses weekly holidays because of an exemption gets the same number of compensatory holidays within that month or the two months after it s. 26(3).
An explanation, not the law. The official text below prevails.
Official text
(1) No worker shall be allowed to work in an establishment for more than six days in any one week:
Provided that in any motor transport undertaking, an employer may, in order to prevent any dislocation of a motor transport service, require a worker to work on any day of weekly holiday which is not a holiday so arranged that the worker does not work for more than ten days consecutively without a holiday for a whole day intervening.
(2) The appropriate Government may, by notification, exempt such workers as it thinks fit from the provisions of sub-section (1), subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
(3) Where, as a result of the passing of an order or the making of a rule under the provisions of this Code exempting an establishment or the workers therein from the provisions of sub-section (1), a worker is deprived of any of the weekly holidays, the worker shall be allowed, within the month in which the holidays were due or within the two months immediately following that month, compensatory holidays of equal number to the holidays, so deprived.