9
Ancillary provisiona relating to
holiday pay and sickness
allowance.
(8) such medical treatment is provided by that person without
expense to any such worker.
(4) At any time and for any reason, the Director may, having given to the person by whom the scheme is operated not less than one mouth's notice of his intention so to do, withdraw his recognition of any scheme of medical treatment.
(5) Whenever the Director has recognized, or has withdrawn his recognition of, any scheme of medical treatment, a notification thereof shall be published in the Gazette,
9. (1) Any holiday on which a worker absents himself from work shall, in determining for the purposes of this Ordinance whether or not the worker has worked for the person from whom he claims pay- ment of the holiday pay or the sickness allowance, as the case may be, on not less than one hundred and eighty days during the period of twelve months preceding the statutory holiday or the day on which on the occasion of the sickness or injury he first absented himself from work on account thereof and on not less than twenty days during the period of twenty-eight days preceding such day, be treated as a day on which the worker worked for that person.
(2) In the case of a female worker or a worker who is a young person, any day on which, by virtue of any regulations made under the (34 of 1955). Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance. 1955, the employment of the worker in an industrial undertaking by the person from whom the worker claims payment of the holiday pay or the sickness allowance was prohibited shall, in determining for the purposes of this Ordinance whether or not the worker has worked for that person on not less than twenty days during the period of twenty-eight days preceding, as the case may be, the statutory holiday or the day on which on any occasion of sickness or injury, the worker first absented herself or himself from work on account of her or his sickness or injury, be treated as a day on which the worker worked for that person.
(3) In calculating for the purposes of this Ordinance the period of twenty-eight days preceding a statutory holiday or the day on which on any occasion of sickness or injury a worker first absents bimself from work on account of his sickness or injury, no account shall be taken of any day on which the business of the person from whom the worker claims payment of the holiday pay or the sickness allowance, as the case may be, was closed, either wholly or in respect of that class of worker to which the worker belonged.
(4) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that a worker who is otherwise entitled to be paid the holiday pay or the sickness allowance shall not be deprived thereof solely by reason of the fact that, ou the statutory holiday or on any day on which he is absent from work on account of his sickness or injury, he ceases to be, or is no longer.
employed by the person who is liable to pay him the same, unless his employment was terminated by that person on a ground that, at the date of the termination thereof, was at common law a good cause for terminating without notice the employment of a servant.
10. (1) The holiday pay shall be a sum equivalent to the average daily earnings of the worker during the period of twenty-eight days preceding the statutory holiday.
(2) The rate per day of the sickness allowance shall be one half of the average daily carnings of the worker during the period of twenty- eight days preceding the day on which, from time to time, he first absents himself from work by reason of the fact that he is unfit therefor on account of sickness or injury.
Rate of holiday pay
and sicknesA allowance.
sickness
IL (1) In the case of a worker other than a worker who is Time for normally paid his wages daily, any sickness allowance that he is then payment of entitled to be paid shall be paid to the worker or to some person on bis allowance. behalf not later than the day on which the worker is normally paid his Wages.
(2) In the case of a worker who is normally paid his wages daily, any sickness allowance that the worker is then entitled to be paid shall be paid to him or to some person on his behalf not less often than once in every fourteen days.
PART III
Provisions as to identification of workers and as to giving thereto of notice of daya worked and of
earnings, etc. and as to keeping of records.
12. (1) Whenever a person who employs or who has employed a Power of worker considers it necessary to do so for the purpose of satisfying employer to
require himself as to the identity of the worker or of checking the identity of the worker to worker or of ascertaining or checking the number of his identity card, produce such person may, by notice in writing served on the worker personally, identity card. require the worker to produce to him his identity card, and if, without reasonable excuse, the worker fails to produce his identity card to that person within seven days of the service upon him of such notice, that person shall not be-
(a) obliged, for the purposes of this Ordinance, to treat as a day on which the worker worked for him any day on which the worker worked for him between the day on which the notice was served and the day on which the worker produces his identity card to him;
(b) liable to pay any holiday pay or sickness allowance that he would otherwise be liable to pay in respect of any day between the day on which the notice was served and the day on which the worker produces his identity card to him.