Tamil Nadu govt directs employers to declare holiday on polling day



Tamil Nadu govt directs employers to declare holiday on polling day

Tamil Nadu Government on Tuesday directed employers in the state to grant their employees a day’s holiday with wages on April 13 to enable them vote in the Assembly elections.

”It is mandatory on the part of every employer in Tamil Nadu to grant a holiday with wages on April 13,” a Labour Department note here said.

Such a measure was mandatory as per the provisions of Section 135 B of Representation of People Act, 1951.

‘Therefore the employers of all the factories, shops, establishments, commercial establishments, catering establishments, plantations, beedi establishments and motor transport undertakings are required to grant holiday with wages on April 13 to all their employees,” it said.

This also applied to daily wage labourers and casual workers, it added.



source: Indian Express

Click here to view the Government Order

Comments

Anonymous said…
NOT ABLE TO SEE OLDER POSTS

Popular posts from this blog

Central Government Office Holiday List 2023 - DoPT Order PDF Download

7th CPC Pay Fixation on Promotion/MACP Calculator with Matrix Table

Revised Pay Scale from 1.7.2017 for Karnataka Govt Employees