Order 11. Railway travel facilities

(1) Where a worker proceeds on leave and is qualified for free railway fare, the employer shall pay the cost of ticket, including bus fare and boat.

(2) Every worker who has completed a period of twelve months continuous service, shall qualify for railway fare or bus fare or both for going home on leave and returning to the mine on the expiry of the leave.

Explanation: For the removal of doubts, twelve months service shall be deemed to have been completed if, during the twelve months preceding the date of application for leave, the worker has worked for not less than two hundred and forty days.

(3) On the expiry of the leave, if the worker returns shall receive a cash payment equivalent to the return fare and on his return the mine is unable to reemploy back, the return fare shall be paid to him forthwith.

(4) Where the journey home is undertaken by bus or partly by bus and partly by train, the cost of journey shall be adjusted accordingly.

(5) The worker shall be entitled to railway fare by mail or express train, wherever under the Railway Rules tickets are available for such travel.

(6) The class by which a worker shall be entitled to travel in second class/sleeper or as mutually decided between negotiating union or negotiating council and the employer and where there is no negotiating union or negotiating council, then as mutually decided between the representative of workers in the Works Committee and the employer and where there is no works committee, then as mutually decided between the representative of workers and the employer.

(7) Where an inter-State migrant worker avails the benefits, as specified in this paragraph, under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Codes, 2020 (37 of 2020), shall not be entitled to avail any benefit in this paragraph.