Rekha, a pregnant employee, asks her employer to relieve her of work involving long hours of standing…

Section 59(3) provides that no pregnant woman shall, "on a request being made by her", be required to do work of an arduous nature or involving long hours of standing during the period in section 59(4). That period includes the one month immediately preceding the six weeks before the expected delivery. Section 69 also bars any deduction from her wages by reason only of the work assigned to her under section 59.