Shops (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1938

Notice of time of annual leave.

39.—(1) The proprietor of a shop who is required by this Part of this Act to allow annual leave to a member of the staff of such shop, shall give to such member notice in writing of the day on which such annual leave will begin, and shall so give such notice not less than fourteen days before such day.

(2) A notice given in pursuance of this section to a member of the staff of a shop may be given either by handing such notice to such member or by exhibiting such notice in a prominent position to which such member has access in such shop.

(3) Every proprietor of a shop who is required by this section to give to any member of the staff of such shop such notice as is mentioned in the preceding sub-sections of this section, who fails or neglects to give in accordance with this section such notice to any such member on any occasion on which he is so required so to do shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act.