law: Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
  
  27.Wages during leave period.-
  (1) For the leave allowed to him under section
  
  26, an employee shall be paid at the rate equal to the daily average of his
  
  total full time earnings for the days on which he had worked during the month
  
  immediately preceding his leave exclusive of any overtime earnings and bonus
  
  but inclusive of dearness and other allowances.
  
  Explanation I.-- In this sub-section, the expression "total full
  
  time earnings" includes the cash equivalent of the advantage accruing
  
  through the concessional sale to employees of food
  
  grains and other articles, as the employee is for the time being entitled to,
  
  but does not include bonus.
  
  Explanation II.-- For the purpose of determining the wages payable to a
  
  home worker during leave period or for the purpose of payment of maternity
  
  benefit to a woman home worker, "day" shall mean any period during
  
  which such home worker was employed, during a period of twenty-four hours
  
  commencing at midnight, for making beedi or cigar or
  
  both.
  (2) An employee who has been allowed leave for not less than four days in the
  
  case of an adult and five days in the case of a young person, shall before his
  
  leave begins, be paid wages due for the period of the leave allowed.