Rule 50. Weekly day of rest under sub-section (2) of section 26 and 135(2)(za)

(1) 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 day of rest.

(2) Where the weekly day of rest is not the same day for all persons employed in the establishment, the notice shall show the day of rest allowed to each relay, or set of persons or individual.

(3) 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 he has or will have a holiday for a whole day on one of the three days immediately before or after the said day:

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

Provided further that factory or a part of factory or a class of factories which comes under the purview of continuous process factory as set out in Schedule-II shall be allowed to work on daily basis and the first day of week of groups of workers may be different for the purpose of weekly holiday.

(4) Where, in accordance with the provisions of sub-rule (3), 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.

(5) For the purpose of shift changing of a worker; a holiday of 24 consecutive hours shall be insured between the shifts subject to section 28.

(6) The compensatory days of rest shall be so spaced that in any one week not more than two such days shall be allowed to any person.

(7) Inspector-cum-Facilitator of jurisdiction, subject to the control of Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator, may approve, in writing, any other day as the first day of week for any particular area or a class of establishments.

(8) The State Government or subject to the control of the State Government the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator, for reasons specified in writing, may issue the notifications or office order for weekly holiday and/or duration of work for any establishment or class of establishment other than a factory and may exempt sub-rule (3) subject to the provisions of section 26.

(9) A notice of substituted day for the said day shall be delivered to the Inspector-cum-Facilitator electronically or otherwise prior to the substituted day or said day, whichever is earlier in case of a factory. The Manager shall keep record of such substituted holiday.

(10) Notices given under sub-rule (2) may be cancelled by a notice delivered at the office of the Inspector-cum-Facilitator and a notice displayed in the factory not later than the day before the said day or the holiday to be cancelled, whichever is earlier.

(11) In addition to the weekly day of rest under this rule and annual leave with wages admissible under the Code, the State Government may, by notification, provide for eight holidays with wages in a calendar year for any establishment, class of establishments, or all establishments, subject to such conditions as may be specified therein:

Provided that where a worker engaged in a continuous process establishment is required to work on any such holiday, such worker shall be granted compensatory leave with wages within such period as may be specified, not exceeding one month.