24. (1) The employer shall be responsible to provide and maintain in his establishment
such welfare facilities for the workers as may be prescribed by the Central Government,
including,—
(i) adequate and suitable facilities for washing to workers for male and female
separately;
(ii) bathing places and locker rooms for male, female and transgender employees
separately;
(iii) place of keeping clothing not worn during working hours and for the drying
of wet clothing;
(iv) sitting arrangements for all workers obliged to work in a standing position;
(v) adequate standard of canteen or workers thereof in an establishment
employing one hundred or more workers including contract labour ordinarily employed;
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and in case of mines, medical examination of the workers employed or to be employed
in the mines, before their employment and at a specific intervals;
(vi) adequate first-aid boxes or cupboards with contents readily accessible during
all working hours; and
(vii) any other welfare measures which the Central Government considers, under
the set of circumstances, as required for decent life of the workers.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers referred to under sub-section (1),
the Central Government may also prescribe for the following matters, namely:—
(i) ambulance room in every factory, mine and other construction work wherein
more than five hundred workers are ordinarily employed;
(ii) medical facilities at the operating centres and halting stations, uniforms,
raincoats and other like amenities for protection from rain or cold for motor transport
workers;
(iii) adequate, suitable and separate shelters or rest-rooms for male, female and
transgender workers and lunch-room in every factory and mine wherein more than
fifty workers are ordinarily employed and in motor transport undertaking wherein
worker is required to halt at night;
(iv) the appointment of welfare officer in every factory, mine or plantation wherein
two hundred and fifty or more workers are ordinarily employed and the qualification,
conditions of service and duties of such welfare officer;
(v) to provide temporary living accommodation, free of charges and within the
work site or as near to it as may be possible by the employer to all building workers
employed by him and for causing removal or demolition of such temporary living
accommodation and for returning by the employer the possession of any land obtained
by him for such purpose from Municipal Board or any other local authority;
(vi) payment by the principal employer, the expenses incurred on providing the
accommodation to the contractor, where the building and other construction work is
done through the contractor;
(vii) any other matter which may be prescribed.
(3) The Central Government may make rules to provide for the facility of creche having
suitable room or rooms for the use of children under the age of six years of the employees at
suitable location and distance either separately or along with common facilities in
establishments wherein more than fifty workers are ordinarily employed.
(4) Every employer of plantation shall be responsible, subject to the provision of
sub-sections (1) to (3), to provide and maintain welfare facilities through his own resources
relating to drinking water, housing, medical, education and toilet to the workers in the
plantation or through schemes for such purpose sponsored by the Central Government or
State Government, Municipality or Panchayat for the locality in which the plantation is
situated.
Explanation.—For the purposes of  this sub-section,—
(i) the expression “Municipality” has the same meaning as assigned to it under
clause (e) of article 243P; and
(ii) the expression “Panchayat” has the same meaning as assigned to it under
clause (d) of article 243.
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CHAPTER VII
HOURS OF WORK AND ANNUAL LEAVE WITH WAGES