Section 89: Provisions relating to seasonal enterprises

1) If any seasonal enterprise is closed during the off-season, the labourers working in such an enterprise shall be kept in reserve during the period of its closure.

Explanation: For the purpose of this Section, the term “seasonal enterprise” means an enterprise which can be operated in a particular season only, and this term also includes an enterprise which cannot be operated for more than one hundred eighty days in a year.

2) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Act, the employer shall provide labour who is in regular employment with an amount equal to twenty-five per cent of the remuneration to which he or she is entitled during the period of the off-season when the seasonal enterprise remains closed.

3) If there arises a question of whether or not any enterprise is a seasonal enterprise, it shall be as decided by the Office.