Leave

An employee in a shop or an establishment shall be entitled- (a) after every twelve months' continuous service, to privilege leave on full wages for a total period of one month; (b) in every year, to casual leave on full wages for a total period not exceeding twelve days; and (c) after every twelve months' continuous service, to sick leave on half wages for a period not exceeding one month on the certification of registered medical practitioner whose name is in the register maintained under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (CII of 1956): Provided that no leave admissible under this section shall be accumulated. Explanation.-For the purposes of this section, an employee shall be deemed to have completed a period of twelve months' continuous service in a shop or an establishment notwithstanding interruptions in the service during those twelve months caused by sickness, accident or authorised leave not exceeding ninety days in the aggregate for all three, or by a lock-out or by intermittent period of involuntary unemployment not exceeding thirty days in the aggregate, and authorised leave shall be deemed not to include any weekly holiday allowed under this Act which occurs at the beginning or end of an interruption caused by such leave.