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Budgetary Relief Allowance Of Workers (No.2) Law (No.2 Law ) - Sect 3

Budgetary relief Allowance

3.
(1) With effect from the relevant date, every employer in any trade who employs not less than twenty- five workers shall, in respect of each month, pay to each worker whose total earnings for the month do not exceed eight hundred rupees, an allowance, in this Law referred to as the " budgetary relief allowance ", which is not less than fifteen rupees :
(2) Where a worker is employed on a piece-rate basis, or a daily-rate basis, the budgetary relief allowance payable under this Law shall be a sum not less than six per centum of the wages payable to him on a piece-rate basis or a daily-rate basis, as the case may be, so however, that the amount payable under this subsection shall not exceed fifteen rupees per month.
(3) Every employer of a worker whose total earnings for the month exceed eight hundred rupees, but are less than eight hundred and ninety rupees, shall, in respect of each month, pay to such worker as the budgetary relief allowance, an amount equivalent to the difference between eight hundred and ninety rupees and the amount drawn by such worker as salary or wages for that month.
(4) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this section, the budgetary relief allowance shall not be payable to a worker.
(a) to whom collective agreement No.5 of 1967 applies;
(b) to whom the employer, voluntarily or otherwise pays wages and a non- recurring cost of living Gratuity which are not less favourable than the amount payable under the collective agreement referred to in paragraph(a);
(c) to whom the employer pays a Cost of Living Allowance determined in accordance with the Colombo Consumers' Price index ;
(d) who is employed in an institution declared to be an approved charity under section 16A of the Inland Revenue Act, No. 4 of 1963 ;
(e) whose employer Is bound by an Order under section 10 (2) of the Industrial Disputes Act, in respect of any Collective Agreement published in Gazette No. 14,975 of September 10,1971, and pays wages and a non-recurring Cost of Living Gratuity in terms of any such agreement, where the total number of workers employed by such employer is less than twenty-five.


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