Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1977
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Entitlement of employee to rest. |
13.—(1) When an employee is employed by an employer to work on more than five days in a week and the employee is also required to do more than three hours work on a Sunday, the employer shall ensure that the conditions of employment of every such employee are such that the employee will have at least twenty-four consecutive hours rest without pay in every period of seven days. | |
(2) This section shall not apply to an employee who is employed by an employer to do industrial work within the meaning of section 3 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (as amended by section 2 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1944 ). | ||
(3) An employer who contravenes subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence. |