The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025
Rule 41. Attendance record
Official text
(1) Muster-roll: -(a) The employer of every establishment shall maintain a muster-roll of all the workers employed in the establishment in Form-14 electronically or otherwise showing, -(b) the name of each worker;
(c) the nature of his work; and
(d) the daily attendance of the worker.
(e) ln case of establishments employing more than hundred workers, attendance shall be marked within one hour and in other cases within half an hour of the start of the duty.
(f) The register maintained under this sub-rule shall be preserved for a period of three years after the last entry in it and shall be produced before the Inspector-cum Facilitator on demand.
(2) Attendance Card: -
(a) No worker shall be required or allowed to work unless he has in his possession attendance card with up-to-date entries, in Form-15 to be supplied by the employer. The attendance card shall always remain with the worker. The employer or his authorised person shall demand it only to make relevant entries therein, whenever necessary.
(b) If a worker loses his attendance card, the employer shall provide him/her with another copy duly completed from his record on payment of twenty-five rupees within two days of the payment. Nothing in sub-rule (2) shall be applicable to an establishment having an arrangement of attendance system satisfying the following conditions: -I. The system must have biometric identity verification capability. II. the data must be safe so as to prevent identity theft; III. the system must be kept functional always; IV. there must be sufficient number of access points or kiosks; V. MIS reports with the queries of daily and weekly hours worked/ overtime hours/ leave record/absenteeism / weekly holidays/gender/ personal details of the employee must be made available to the employees; VI. the system may have integration to payroll management systems; VII. the data of the system should be backed up daily with logs of any changes made on the local and external servers used for backup purposes only; and VIII. regulatory authorities must be given access to the system as well as backup servers.