Employment Of Women, Young Persons And Children, The Factories And The Shop And Office Employees (Regulation Of Employment And Remuneration) (Amendment) (No. 32 of 1984)

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Employment Of Women, Young Persons And Children, The Factories And The Shop And Office Employees (Regulation Of Employment And Remuneration) (Amendment) (No. 32 of 1984) - Sect 3

Insertion of new section 2A, 2B and 2c in the principal enactment

3. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 2 of the principal enactment and shall have effect as sections 2A, 2B and 2C, respectively of that enactment:-

	(1) Subject to the provisions of this night in any Part every woman employed in an industrial undertaking shall be permitted to work undertaking throughout the night

(2) Employment of a woman at night shall be subject to the following conditions :-

(a) no woman shall be compelled to work at night against her will;

(b) that written sanction of the commissioner of Labour should be obtained by every employer, prior to the employment by him of women to work after 10 p.m. at night;

(d) every woman who works at night not less than one and a half times the normal payment received by her;

(e) there shall be appointed female wardens to see to the welfare of woman workers who work at night;

(f) every woman worker working at night shall be provided with restrooms and refreshments by the employer ;

(g) no woman shall be employed for more than ten days on night work, during any one month.

2B. The provisions of section 2A shall not apply -

	(a) to women holding responsible positions of a managerial or technical character;

	(b) to women employed in health and welfare services who are not ordinarily engaged in manual work ; and

	(c) to an industrial undertaking in which only members of the same family are employed.

2C. When in a case of serious emergency, the public interest demands it, the Minister may, after consultations with the employers' and workers' organizations concerned, if any, by Order published in the Gazette, vary the conditions set out in section 2A, in relation of employment of women, or prohibit employment of women, during the night in any industrial undertaking or undertakings or branches thereof.".

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