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    This document is the Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) (Amendment) Act, No. 14 of 2018 from Sri Lanka. It amends the Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) Act (Chapter 129) to (1) increase maternity leave for employees who deliver a live child to 70 days and for those who do not deliver a live child to 28 days, and (2) require employers to provide nursing breaks of at least 30 minutes for mothers with children under 1 year old if a creche is provided or 1 hour if no creche is provided. The Sinhala text of the Act prevails if any inconsistencies exist with the Tamil text

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    This document is the Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) (Amendment) Act, No. 14 of 2018 from Sri Lanka. It amends the Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) Act (Chapter 129) to (1) increase maternity leave for employees who deliver a live child to 70 days and for those who do not deliver a live child to 28 days, and (2) require employers to provide nursing breaks of at least 30 minutes for mothers with children under 1 year old if a creche is provided or 1 hour if no creche is provided. The Sinhala text of the Act prevails if any inconsistencies exist with the Tamil text

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    This document is the Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) (Amendment) Act, No. 14 of 2018 from Sri Lanka. It amends the Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) Act (Chapter 129) to (1) increase maternity leave for employees who deliver a live child to 70 days and for those who do not deliver a live child to 28 days, and (2) require employers to provide nursing breaks of at least 30 minutes for mothers with children under 1 year old if a creche is provided or 1 hour if no creche is provided. The Sinhala text of the Act prevails if any inconsistencies exist with the Tamil text

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    PARLIAMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC

    SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF
    SRI LANKA

    SHOP AND OFFICE EMPLOYEES


    (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND
    REMUNERATION) (AMENDMENT)
    ACT, No. 14 OF 2018

    [Certified on 18th of June, 2018]

    Printed on the Order of Government

    Published as a Supplement to Part II of the Gazette of the Democratic


    Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of June 22, 2018

    PRINTED AT THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, SRI LANKA


    TO BE PURCHASED AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS BUREAU, COLOMBO 5

    Price : Rs. 8.00 Postage : Rs. 10.00

    This Act can be downloaded from www.documents.gov.lk


    Shop and Office Employees 1
    (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration)
    (Amendment) Act, No. 14 of 2018

    [Certified on 18th of June, 2018]

    L.D.—O. 29/2009.

    AN ACT TO AMEND THE SHOP AND OFFICE EMPLOYEES (REGULATION OF


    E MPLOYMENT AND R EMUNERATION ) A CT (C HAPTER 129)

    BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist


    Republic of Sri Lanka as follows:—

    1. This Act may be cited as the Shop and Office Short title.
    Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration)
    (Amendment) Act, No. 14 of 2018.

    2. Section 18 of the Shop and Office Employees Amendment of


    (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) Act (Chapter section 18 of
    Chapter 129.
    129) is hereby amended, as follows:—

    (1) in section 18B thereof—

    (a) by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section


    and the substitution therefor of the following
    subsection:—

    “(2) A female employee to whom this Part


    applies, shall, if she is confined, be entitled to
    take leave for a period of:–

    (a) seventy days commencing on the


    date of her confinement, if the
    confinement results in the delivery
    of live child; and

    (b) twenty eight days commencing on


    the date of her confinement, if the
    confinement does not result in the
    delivery of a live child,

    and the employer shall allow such leave.”;


    2 Shop and Office Employees
    (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration)
    (Amendment) Act, No. 14 of 2018

    (b) by the repeal of subsection (4) of that section.

    (2) by the insertion immediately after section 18H of


    that section which shall have effect as section 18I
    thereof:—

    “Provision of 18I. The employer of a female


    nursing employee in any shop or office shall,
    intervals for
    nursing
    if she is nursing a child under one
    mothers. year of age, allow her, in any period
    of nine hours, two nursing intervals
    at such times as she may require.
    Each interval shall, where a creche
    or other suitable place is provided
    by such employer to such female
    employee for nursing such child, be
    not less than thirty minutes, and
    where no creche or other suitable
    place is so provided, be not less than
    one hour, and shall be in addition to
    any interval provided to such female
    employee for meals or rest under any
    written law and be regarded, for the
    purposes of her employment, as time
    during which she has worked in her
    employment.”.

    Sinhala text to 3. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala


    prevail in case and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.
    of inconsistency.
    Shop and Office Employees 3
    (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration)
    (Amendment) Act, No. 14 of 2018

    English Acts of the Parliament can be purchased at the “PRAKASHANA PIYASA”, DEPARTMENT OF
    GOVERNMENT PRINTING, NO. 118, DR. DANISTER DE SILVA MAWATHA, COLOMBO 8.

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