The Maharashtra Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2017 — Physical PDF page 11 of 18

2017 : Mah. LXI]                The Maharashtra Shops and Establishments                                11
                            (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service)
                                                 Act, 2017
     (d) The period and hours of work in a week for all classes of workers in such shift shall be
informed well in advance to all workers in writing and shall be sent to the Facilitator electronically or
otherwise.
      (e) Where a worker is required to work on a day of his rest, he shall be entitled to wages at the
rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages.
      (2) No deduction shall be made from the wages of any worker in an establishment on account of
any day on which it has been a weekly holiday under this section. If a worker is employed on a daily
wage, he shall nonetheless be paid his daily wage for the day of his weekly off. If a worker is paid a
piece rated wage, he shall nonetheless be paid his wage for the day of his weekly holiday, at a rate
equivalent to the daily average of his wages for the days on which he has actually worked during the
six days preceding such holiday, exclusive of any earning in respect of overtime:
     Provident that, nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any worker whose total period of
continuous employment is less than six days.

      17. Employer to furnish identity card to worker.— The employer of an establishment shall
furnish to every worker an identity card which shall be produced by the worker on demand by
Facilitator. Such card shall contain the following and such other particulars as may be prescribed,
namely:—
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             (a) the name of the employer ;                         od
             (b) the name, if any, and the postal address, of the establishment ;
             (c) the name and age of the worker ;
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             (d) date of joining, department, nature of work, designation ;
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             (e) the signature (with date) of the employer or manager ;
             (f) Blood Group ;
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                                                       CHAPTER IV
                                  LEAVE WITH PAY AND PAYMENT OF WAGES
        18. Leave.— (1) Every worker shall be allowed a weekly holiday with wages.
      (2) Every worker shall be entitled to eight days casual leave with wages in every calendar year
which shall be credited into the account of the worker on a quarterly basis, but shall laps if unavailed at
the end of the year.
     (3) Every worker who has worked for a period of two hundred and forty days or more in an
establishment during a calendar year shall be allowed during the subsequent calendar year, leave with
wages for a number of days calculated at the rate of one day for every twenty days of work performed
by him during the previous calendar year.
      (4) Subject to the provision of clause (3) every worker, who has been employed for not less than
three months in any year, shall for every sixty days on which he has worked during the year be allowed
leave, consecutive or otherwise, for a period of not more than five days.
        (5) Every worker shall be permitted to accumulate earned leave upto a maximum of forty-five
days.
      (6) Where the employer refuses to sanction the leave under sub-section (3) which is due when
applied fifteen days in advance, then the worker shall have a right to encash leave in excess of forty-
five days :



1   Clause (g) was deleted by Mah. 24 of 2022, s. 3.