Re-engagement contracts

(1) The maximum period of service that may be stipulated in any re-engagement contract made on the expiry of a contract shall be twelve months, but in a re-engagement contract with a 55 worker who is accompanied by his wife and children the said maximum period shall be two years. (2) Where the period of service to be stipulated in any re- engagement contract, together with the period already served under the expired contract, involves the separation of any worker from his family for more than eighteen months, the worker shall not begin the service stipulated in the re- engagement contract until he has had the opportunity to return home at the employer’s expense. (3) The Commissioner may grant exemption from the provision of sub-section (2) whenever its application is impracticable or undesirable. (4) Except as provided in sub-sections (1), (2) and (3), all the provisions of the preceding sections of this Part shall apply to re-engagement contracts, but a labour officer may at his discretion exempt such contracts from the provisions of section 53 relating to medical examination.