Agricultural Workers (Holidays) Act, 1950

Holiday remuneration.

4.—(1) An agricultural employer who is required under this Act to allow holidays to an agricultural worker shall pay to the worker in respect of those holidays a sum in lieu of wages, in this Act referred to as “holiday remuneration,” calculated at not less than the appropriate minimum rate fixed by order under section 5.

(2) Holiday remuneration shall become payable on the day before the holidays begin.

(3) Where a worker ceases to be employed without having been allowed a holiday to which he had become entitled under this Act the employer shall thereupon pay to him a sum, in this Act also referred to as “holiday remuneration,” equal to the holiday remuneration in respect of that holiday.