Contents of the OSH Rules (Lakshadweep)

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

Rule 35. Conditions relating to compensatory 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) Where, a worker is deprived of any of the weekly holidays for which provision is made under sub-rule (1) of rule 34, he shall be allowed, within the month in which the holidays were due to him or within the two months immediately following that month, compensatory holidays of equal number of the holidays so lost.

(2) Except in the case of workers engaged in any work which for technical reasons must be carried on continuously throughout the day, the compensatory holidays to be allowed under sub-section (3) of section 26 shall be so spaced that not more than two holidays are given in one week.

(3) The employer of the establishment shall display, on or before the end of the month in which holidays are lost, a notice in respect of workers allowed compensatory holidays during the following month and of the dates thereof, at the place at which the notice of periods of work prescribed under section 31 is displayed. Any subsequent change in the notice in respect of any compensatory holiday shall be made not less than three days in advance of the date of that holiday.

(4) Any compensatory holiday or holidays to which a worker is entitled shall be given to him before he is discharged or dismissed and shall not be reckoned as part of any period of notice required to be given before discharge or dismissal.

(5) The employer shall maintain required entries as prescribed in Form-14.

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, pp. 23–24 of the PDF. Open our copy at p. 23 · official download · all sources