The Uttar Pradesh Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Rules, 2026
Rule 110. Limit with regard to the rejection of beedis o cigars under clause (e) of sub-section (4) of section 74
Official text
(1) No employer or contractor shall ordinarily reject a sub-standard or chhat or otherwise more than five percent of the beedis or cigars, or both, received from a worker including a home-worker.
(2) Where any beedi or cigar is rejected as sub-standard or chaat or otherwise on any ground other than the ground of willful negligence of the worker, the worker shall be paid wages for the beedis or cigars, so rejected at one-half of the rate at which wages are payable to him for the beedis or cigars, or both, which have not been so rejected.