Other holidays

Every employee in an establishment shall be allowed— (a) a holiday on full pay on the Independence Day, the Republic Day and Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday each year; and (b) such other holidays on full pay upto five days in a year, in connection with such festivals as the State Government may declare from time to time under this Act: Provided that an employee required to work on any such holiday shall be paid remuneration at double the rate of his normal wages calculated by the hour.