Contents of the OSH Rules (Lakshadweep)

The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025

Rule 34. Condition relating to weekly holidays

Chapter V — Hours of Work and Annual Leave with WagesMade under The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020F. No. 08/04/2024-LE&T, 27 Apr 2026

Official text

(1) No worker shall be required or allowed to work in an establishment on the first day of the week (hereinafter referred to as the said day), unless-(a) he has or will have a holiday for a whole day on one of the three days immediately before or after the said day; and

(b) 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 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 establishment

Provided that no substitution shall be made which will result in any worker working for more than ten days consecutively without a holiday for a whole day.

(2) Notices given under sub-rule (1) 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 (1), 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.

Source: The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025, F. No. 08/04/2024-LE&T — Lakshadweep Gazette Extraordinary Vol. LXII, No. 07, p. 23 of the PDF. Open our copy at p. 23 · official download · all sources