The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Andhra Pradesh) Rules, 2026
Rule 25. Weekly day of rest under sub-section (2) of Section 26
Official text
(1) Subject to Section 2(zzk) of the code, the first day of the week is the weekly day of rest for each worker in a factory/establishment. No adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in a factory/establishment on the weekly day of rest (hereinafter referred to as the said day), unless-
(a) For the purpose of section 26, there shall be posted up in a conspicuous place outside the office of every establishment a notice showing the weekly holiday. Where the weekly holiday is not the same day for all persons employed in the establishment, the notice shall show the holiday allowed to each relay, or set of persons or individual in Telugu or English Language.
(b) The State Government may, by notification, exempt employees or class of employees of any establishment or class of establishments from the operation of sub-section (1) of section 26 of the Code subject to the condition given in the notification.
(c) He/she has or will have a holiday for a whole day on one of the three days immediately before or after the said day, and
(d) The employer of the establishment has, before the said day or the substituted day under clause (a), whichever is earlier,-
(i) delivered a notice at the office of the Inspector-cum-facilitator of his/her intention to require the worker to work on the said day and of the day which is to be substituted, and
(ii) displayed a notice to that effect in the factory/establishment.
Provided that no substitution shall be made which will result in any worker working formore than ten days consecutively without a holiday for a whole day.
(2) Notices given under sub-rule (b) may be cancelled by a notice delivered at the office of the Inspector-cum-facilitator and a notice displayed in the establishment not later than the day before the said day or the holiday to be cancelled, whichever is earlier.
(3) Where, in accordance with the provisions of sub-rule (b), any worker works on the said day and has had a holiday on one of the three days immediately before it, that said day shall, for the purpose of calculating his weekly hours of work, be included in the preceding week.