11. Guaranteed week

In the case of a worker employed on an agreement for a period of a week or more and paid according to the number of days’ work performed, an employer shall provide work suitable to the capacity of such worker for not less than 5½ days in every week with the exception of prescribed holidays and Fridays (or such other rest day as may be substituted for a Friday by agreement between the employer and the worker, entered into not less than 3

days before the rest is taken) and if he is unable or fails to provide such work on such number of days whereon the worker presents himself for work and is fit to work the employer shall nevertheless be bound to pay to the worker in respect of each of such days, wages at not less than his usual rate of pay, including cost of living allowance, if any, or if the worker is on piece rates at not less than the average of his previous week’s earnings or if he has not been working, at the average rate during the last full week’s work earned by a similar class of worker engaged on similar work:

Provided that if such day is a work day, other than a Saturday, the employer shall pay at a rate as if a whole day’s work had been performed.