New Delhi, May 8 -- The Delhi government has instructed all business establishments, including shops, hotels, restaurants, resorts, trade and industrial units to allow paid holiday to their employees going to cast their votes in the Lok Sabha polls in the city on May 25.
The Delhi government's Labour department in an order issued on Monday said that Section 135B of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 provides that every person employed in any business, trade, industrial undertaking or any other establishment and entitled to vote in an election to the Lok Sabha or Vidhan Sabha will be granted holiday on the day of voting.
"No deduction or abatement of the wages of any such person shall be made on account of a holiday having been gra...