Section 9 — Deductions for absence from duty.

9. Deductions for absence from duty.—(1) Deductions may be made under clause (b) of sub-section 

(2) of section 7 only on account of the absence of an employed person from the place or places where, by 

the terms of his employment, he is required to work, such absence being for the whole or any part of the 

period during which he is so required to work. 

(2) The amount of such deduction shall in no case bear to the wages payable to the employed person 

in respect of the wage-period for which the deduction is made a large proportion than the period for 

which he was absent bears to the total period, within such wage-period, during which by the terms of his 

employment, he was required to work: 

Provided that, subject to any rules made in this behalf by 
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[appropriate Government], if ten or more 

employed persons acting in concert absent themselves without due notice (that is to say without giving 

the notice which is required under the terms of their contracts of employment) and without reasonable 

cause, such deduction from any such person may include such amount not exceeding his wages for eight 

days as may by any such terms be due to the employer in lieu of due notice. 

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[Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, an employed person shall be deemed to be absent 

from the place where he is required to work if, although present in such place, he refuses, in pursuance of 

a stay-in strike or for any other cause which is not reasonable in the circumstances, to carry out his work.]