Section 15 — Wages of worker who works for less than normal working day.

15. Wages of worker who works for less than normal working day.—If an employee whose 

minimum rate of wages has been fixed under this Act by the day works on any day on which he was 

employed for a period less than the requisite number of hours constituting a normal working day, he shall, 

save as otherwise hereinafter provided, be entitled to receive wages in respect of work done by him on 

that day as if he had worked for a full normal working day: 

Provided, however, that he shall not be entitled to receive wages for a full normal working day—  

(i) in any case where his failure to work is caused by his unwillingness to work and not by the 

omission of the employer to provide him with work, and 

(ii) in such other cases and circumstances as may be prescribed.  

                                                           
1. Section 13 re-numbered as sub-section (1) of thereof by Act 30 of 1957, s. 10. 

2. Ins. by s. 10, ibid.  

3. Subs. by Act 26 of 1954, s. 4 for “section 47 of the Factories Act, 1934 (25 of 1934)” . 



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