Act Number: 27

Act Name: The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961

Year: 1961

Enactment Date: 1961-05-20

Long Title: An Act to provide for the welfare of motor transport workers and to regulate the conditions of their work.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 19: Weekly rest.
    (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules providing for a day of rest in every period of seven days, which shall be allowed to all motor transport workers.
     (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), an employer may, in order to prevent any allocation of a motor transport service, require a motor transport worker to work on any day of rest which is not a holiday so, however, that the motor transport worker does not work for more than ten days consecutively without a holiday for a whole day intervening.
     (3) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall apply to any motor transport worker whose total period of employment including any day spent on leave is less than six days.
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