Chapter III HOURS OF WORK

(1) No employee in any establishment shall be required or allowed to work for more than nine hours on any day and forty-eight hours in any week: Provided that the total number of hours of work including overtime shall not exceed ten hours in any day except on days of stock-taking and preparation of accounts: Provided further that the total number of overtime hours worked by an employee does not exceed fifty in a period of three continuous months. (2) No young person shall be allowed to work in any establishment for more than five hours in a day.

(1) Where an employee works in any establishment for more than nine hours in any day or for more than forty-eight hours in any week he shall in respect of such overtime work be entitled to wages at twice the rate of normal wages. (2) For the purposes of this section "normal wages" means the basic wages plus such allowances, including the cash equivalent of the advantage accruing through the concessional sale to workers of food grains and other articles, as the worker is for the time being entitled to, but does not include a bonus. (3) The cash equivalent of the advantage accruing through the concessional sale to a worker of food grains and other articles shall be computed as often as may be prescribed on the basis of the maximum quantity of food grains and other articles admissible to a standard family. Explanation 1.—"standard family" means a family consisting of an employee, his or her spouse and two children below the age of fourteen years requiring in all three adult consumption units. Explanation 2.—"adult consumption unit" means the consumption unit of a male above the age of fourteen years; and the consumption unit of a female above the age of fourteen years and that of a child below the age of fourteen years shall be calculated at the rates of .8 and .6 respectively of one adult consumption unit. (4) The State Government may make rules prescribing,- (a) the manner in which the cash equivalent of the advantage accruing through the concessional sale to a worker of food grains and other articles shall be computed; (b) the registers that shall be maintained in an establishment for the purpose of securing compliance with the provisions of this section.

The periods of work of an employee in an establishment each day shall be so fixed that no period shall exceed five hours and that no such person shall work for more than five hours before he has had an interval of rest of at least one hour.

The periods of work of an employee in an establishment shall be so fixed that, inclusive of his interval for rest, they shall not spreadover more than twelve hours in any day.

(1) No establishment shall on any day, be opened earlier than and closed later than such hours as may be fixed by a notification issued by the State Government: Provided that any customer who was being served or was waiting to be served in any establishment at the hour fixed for its closing may be served during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour. (2) Before issuing a notification under sub-section (1), the State Government shall hold an enquiry in the prescribed manner. (3) The State Government may, for the purpose of this section, fix different hours for different establishments or different classes of establishments or for different areas or for different times of the year.

(1) Every establishment shall remain closed for one day of the week. The employer shall fix such date at the beginning of the year, or within thirty days from the date of commencement of establishments, as the case may be notify it to the Inspector and specify it in a notice prominently displayed in a conspicuous place in the establishment. The employer shall not alter such date more often than once in three months, shall notify the alteration to the Inspector, and shall make the necessary change in the notice in the establishment. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the State Government may allow an establishment to remain open throughout the week if it is satisfied that the establishment employs additional staff for meeting the requirements of sub-section (3) of this section. (3) Every employee in an establishment shall be given at least one whole day in a week as a holiday for rest: Provided that in establishments in which rest for one-and-a-half days in a week is allowed, such period of rest shall be continued. (4) It shall not be lawful for an employer to call an employee at, or for an employee to go to, his establishment or any other place for any work in connection with the business of his establishment on a weekly holiday given to the employee under sub-section (3) or on a day on which such establishment remains closed. (5) No deduction shall be made from the wages of an employee in any establishment on account of the holiday given to him under sub-section (3). If any employee is employed on daily wages, he shall nonetheless be paid his wages for the weekly holiday.

Save as provided by or under any other enactment for the time being in force, no person shall carry on, in or adjacent to a street or public place, the sale of any goods after the hour fixed under section 11 for the closing of establishments dealing in the same class of goods in the locality in which such street or public place is situated: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of newspapers and such other articles as may be exempted by notification by the State Government.