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The Tamil Nadu Government today directed employers in the State to grant their employees a day's holiday with wages on April 13 to enable them vote in the Assembly elections.
“It is mandatory on the part of every employer in Tamil Nadu to grant a holiday with wages on April 13,” a Labour Department note here said.
Such a measure was mandatory according to the provisions of Section 135 B of Representation of People Act, 1951.
“Therefore the employers of all the factories, shops, establishments, commercial establishments, catering establishments, plantations, beedi establishments and motor transport undertakings are required to grant holiday with wages on April 13 to all their employees,” it said.
This also applied to daily wage labourers and casual workers, it added.
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