Feature

Plantations act

Feature

Applicable Any land used/intended to use

applicable to
to
for growing tea, coffee, rubber,
cinchona, cardamom-5ha or
more-15 or more persons are
employed
Or any other plant after getting
approval from govt.

Factories act
Any factory-a manufacturing process
is carried out-and a min of 10 workers
if use power- or min of 20 workers if
without use of power.

Health
Plantations Act
Drinking
Sec8-Provision of
water
wholesome DW

Drinking water

Conservancy

Sec-9-separate for Latrines and

males and females Urinals

Medical

Sec-10-medical
facilities as
prescribed

Spittoons

Factories Act
sec 18-same +
if workers are more than 250 cooling
DW
sec-19-same+ if workers are more than
250 then it should be of prescribed
sanitary type+ tiled up to 90 cms height
sec 20: provisions for spittoons

Cleanliness.

sec 11: Removal of dirt and refuse

washing of workroom at least once in
every week draining of workplace
painting of walls, partitions and ceilings
Disposal of wastes sec 12: Effective arrangements to
and effluents.
remove wastes and effluents
Ventilation
and sec 13: provide adequate ventilation and
temperature.
maintain temperature
Dust and fume.
sec 14: arrangement to remove dust and
fume
Artificial
sec 15: Artificially increase humidity if
humidification.
required
Overcrowding.
sec 16: min 14.2 cubic meters space
Lighting.

sec 17: Natural and artificial lighting

Mines Act
Sec-19 (no number specification)

Sec 20

Sec 21
Medical Appliances (first aid box)
If 150 or more workers, then first
aid room.

Welfare (sec 11-18) Plantations Act

Canteens sec-11-150 or more workers
crches
sec-12- 50 or more women
workers or no. of children of
women workers is min 20
Welfare sec 18- 300 or workers
officers
Recreati sec-13- as prescribed
onal
Educatio sec-14- min 25 children under
nal
the age of 6 and 12 years
Housing sec-15-those who reside within
the plantation and those
residing outside and with min 6
months conti. Service

Welfare(sec 42-50) Factories Act

Canteens
Crches

sec 46: if more than 250 workers

sec 48: more than 30 women
workers are employed

Welfare officers

sec 49: such no. of welfare officers if

500 or more workers are employed
Washing facilities
sec 42: separate for males and
females
accessible
Facilities for storing and sec 43: keeping clothes and drying
drying clothing
wet clothes
Facilities for sitting.
sec 44: Adequate facilities

First aid appliances.

Shelters, rest rooms and

sec 45: min one for 150 workers

keep only the prescribed contents one
trained person shall be responsible for
maintaining it if more than 500
employees then an ambulance room
prescribed equipment and nursing
and medical staff.
sec 47 :if more than 150 workers are

Mines act
Same

Same

If more than 50

lunch rooms.

employed

Power to make rules to

suplmt. this Chapter.

sec 50

workers then
lunch room.

hours of work
Provision
weekly hrs

Plantations Act
sec 19- max 48 hrs
for adult and 27 for
adolescent and child

Factories Act
sec 51: same

weekly holidays

sec 20-a day for

every 7 days

sec 52:

daily interval

sec 21-min half an hr sec 54: adult max 9

rest for every 5 hrs
hrs/day
sec 55: daily intervals
half an hour for every 5
hrs of work
sec 22-not more
sec 56: not more than
than 12 hrs
10 and half hrs/day
including time for
including rest
waiting for work

spread over

Mines Act
Sec 30: above ground:
48 hrs week and not
more than 9 hrs a day
Sec 31:below the
ground: 48 hrs/week
and 8 hrs in a day
Sec 28: Not more than
six days a week
Sec 30: Same

Sec: 35-Daily 10 hrs

including overtime

night work

sec 25-no woman or

child shall employed
between 6 am and
7pm

sec 57:

Factories act
sec 53:Compensatory
holidays.

Mines acts
Sec 29:

sec 59: extra wages Sec 33

for overtime if more
than 9 hrs/day or 48
hrs/week , then twice
the ordinary wages

annual leave

Leave with wages

sec 30-1 day
sec 79:
for every 20
adult: one day for

Sec 52: 1 day for every 15

days worked, (below

days for adults

and
1 for every
15 young
person

every 20 days of
work in the previous
calendar year (cont.
service of 240 days or
more)
child: one day for
every 15 days
sec 80: wages during
leave

ground)
1 day for every 20 days,
other cases

Sec 53:

employment of young persons

Plantations Act
Factories act
Prohibition of
sec 67: no person below 14
employment
years of age is required or
of young
permitted to work.
persons

non-adults to
carry token

Sec 26: a token

giving reference to a
certificate of fitness

sec 68: a token giving

reference to a certificate of
fitness (as per section 69)

certificate of
fitness

Sec 27: certificate of

fitness

working hrs
for children

Sec 25: no child to

work other than 6
am and 7 pm

sec 69: showing that he has

completed 14 years and
attained prescribed physical
standards and fit for work
sec 71: no child shall be
allowed to work for more
than 4 and half hrs a day
and during night

Mines act
Sec 45: Prohibition of
empt. of persons
below the age of 18 in
mines.