1) The document provides information on key provisions of Shops & Establishment Acts across various Indian states, including registration requirements, opening/closing hours, leave policies, holidays, overtime rules and penalties for non-compliance. 2) Key details covered include registration timelines, maximum daily/weekly work hours, requirements for breaks and holidays, entitlements to casual leave, sick leave and privilege leave, paid holiday rules, and overtime wage rates. 3) States have different rules for many provisions. For example, while most mandate 8-9 hours maximum daily work, a few allow up to 10.5 hours if total spread is not more than 12 hours. Overtime wage rates are usually double the ordinary rate.

1. SHOPS & ESTABLISHMENT ACT
Highlights of Shops & Establishment Act
in Various States

2. Agenda of the program
•Applicability
•Registration, Renewal and Closure
•Opening and closing hours of establishment
•Daily and weekly hours of work
•Interval of rest and Spread hours of work
•Weekly holiday
•Leave – CL-SL-PL and leave accumulation
•Paid Holiday
•Pay for leave/Holiday
•Overtime hours, overtime limit and OT wages
•Penalties

3. States Registration/Renewal/Closure
Andhra Pradesh 30 days from commencement,
15 days for change/amendment,
Before 30 days of expiry
15 days from closure
Goa, Diu, Daman 90 days from commencement
Gujarat 30 days from commencement,
Renewed within prescribed time for change/amendment,
10 days from the date of closure
Haryana Within 30 days from the date of commencement where act is applicable.
Closure: Within 10 days from closure of an establishment .
Karnataka Within 30 days from the date of commencement where act is applicable.
The employer shall, within fifteen days of his closing the establishment, notify
in writing the date of such closure and return the registration certificate.
Madhya Pradesh Within 30 days from the date of commencement where act is applicable.
The employer shall, within fifteen days of his closing the establishment, notify
to the registration in writing the date of such closure and return the
registration certificate.
Registration / Renewal/Closure

4. States Registration/Renewal/Closure
Maharashtra Within 30 days from the date of commencement where act is applicable.
Renew within 30 days before expiry of validity.
The employer shall, within 10 days of his closing the establishment, notify in
writing the date of such closure and return the registration certificate.
Delhi Within 90 days from the date of commencement.
Any change to be communicated with in 30 days.
Closure of an establishment need to be communicated within 15 days from
closure.
Punjab Within 30 days from the date of commencement.
Any change to be communicated with in 7 days.
Closure of an establishment need to be communicated within 10 days from
closure.
Uttar Pradesh Within 3 months from the date of commencement.
To be renewed on expiry of validity.
West Bengal Within 30 days from the date of commencement.
Any change to be communicated with in appropriate time/ days.
Every case where a shop or an establishment is closed for a continuous period
of six months or more shall be treated for the purposes of this Rule as a case of
winding up.
Registration / Renewal/Closure

5. Opening & Closing Hours of Establishment and Daily & Weekly Hours of Work
States Opening & closing hours of
establishment
Daily and weekly hours of work
Andhra
Pradesh
The Government may, for the
purposes of this section fix different
hours for different classes of
establishments or for different areas
or for different times of the year.
Not more than eight hours in any day and
forty-eight hours in any week.(2) Any
employee may be required or allowed to
work in an establishment for any period in
excess of the limit fixed under sub-section
(1), on payment of overtime wages, subject
to a maximum period of six hours in any
week.
Goa,
Diu-Daman
No establishment shall on any day be
opened earlier or closed later than
such hour as the Government may,
after previous publication in the
Official Gazette, by general or special
order specify in that behalf.
Subject to other provisions of this Act, no
employee in any establishment shall be
required or allowed to work therein for more
than eight hours in any day and forty eight
hours in any week.

6. States Opening & closing hours of
establishment
Daily and weekly hours of work
Gujarat No commercial establishment shall on any
day be opened earlier than 8.30 am and
closed later than 8.30 pm.
Subject to the (other) provisions of this
Act, no employee shall be required or
allowed to work in any shop or
commercial establishment for more
than nine hours in any day and
forty-eight hours in any week.
Haryana Government shall by notification fix the
opening and closing hours of all classes
of establishments and different opening
and closing hours may be fixed for
different classes of establishments and for
different area.
9 hours in a day and 48 hours a week.
Opening & Closing Hours of Establishment and Daily & Weekly Hours of Work

7. States Opening and Closing hours of work Daily and weekly hours of
work
Delhi No shop or commercial establishment on
any day, be opened earlier than such hour
or closed later than such hour, as may be
fixed by the Government by general or
special order made in that behalf.
Punjab Government shall by notification fix the
opening and closing hours of all classes
of establishments and different opening
and closing hours may be fixed for
different classes of establishments and for
different area.
9 hours in a day and 48
hours a week.
Tamil Nadu No shop shall on any day be opened
earlier or closed later than such hours as
may be fixed by the State Government, by
a general or special order in that behalf.
Opening & Closing Hours of Establishment and Daily & Weekly Hours of Work

8. States Opening and closing hours of
establishment
Daily and weekly hours of work.
Uttar
Pradesh
No employer shall on any day open before 9 am
or keep open after 7 pm any commercial
establishment, not mentioned in Schedule II of
the Act.
No shop or commercial establishment,
not being a shop or commercial
establishment mentioned in Schedule II,
shall, on any day, open earlier, or close
late than such hour as may be
prescribed in this behalf.
West
Bengal
Form I or in Form I (1) as the shop-keeper or
employer may choose showing the daily hours
of actual work and hours of rest against the
name of each employee and also the hours of
opening and closing of such shop or
establishment.
No person employed in an
establishment shall be required or
permitted to work in such establishment
for more than eight hours and a half in
any one day or for more than forty-eight
hours in any one week or after the hour
of closing of such establishment.
Opening & Closing Hours of Establishment and Daily & Weekly Hours of Work

9. Interval of Rest, Spread Hours of Work & Weekly Off
States Interval of Rest Spread hours or work Weekly Off
Andhra Pradesh No employee shall be required or
allowed to work in such establishment
for more than five hours in any day
unless he has had an interval for rest
of at least one hour :hours of work are
less than eight hours, reduce interval
for rest to half-an-hour on an
application made by the employer,
with the consent of the employees.
The periods of work of an
employee in an
establishment shall be so
arranged that, along with his
interval for rest, they shall
not spread-over for more
than twelve hours on any
day :
Every employee in any
establishment shall be
allowed in each week a
holiday of one whole day
Goa, Diu-Daman No employee in any shop shall be
required or allowed to work therein for
more than five hours in any day unless
he has had an interval for rest of at
least one hour:
The periods of work of an
employee in a shop shall be
so arranged that, along with
his intervals for rest, they
shall not spread over more
than twelve hours in any
day:
Every employee in an
establishment shall be
allowed in each week a
holiday of one whole day.
Provided that nothing in this
sub—section shall apply to
an employee whose total
period of employment in the
week including the days
spent on authorised leave is
less than six days.

10. States Interval of Rest Spread over of working
hours
Weekly Off
Gujarat The period of work of an employee in
a shop or commercial establishment
each day shall be so fixed that no
period for continuous work shall
exceed five hours and that no
employee shall be required or
allowed to work for more than five
hours before he has had an interval
for rest of at least:
The spread-over of an employee
in a shop shall not exceed eleven
hours in any day:
(1) Every shop and commercial
establishment shall remain
closed on one day of the
week.
Haryana Subject to the provisions of Section
6, no employee, except a chaukidar,
watchman or guard, shall be allowed
to work in an establishment for more
than five hours before he has had an
interval for rest of at least half an
hour.
the period of work of an
employee in an establishment
shall be so fixed that, inclusive of
his interval for rest, the
spread-over shall not be more
than twelve hours in a day.
1) Every establishment shall
remain closed on every
Sunday: Provided that , in the
case of an establishment
attached to a factory, the
employer may substitute the
close day of such
establishment so as to
correspond to the substituted
close day
Interval of Rest, Spread Hours of Work & Weekly Off

11. States Interval of Rest Spread over of working
hours
Weekly Off
New Delhi The period of work of an adult
employee in an establishment each
day shall be so fixed that no period
of continuous work shall exceed five
hours and that no employee shall be
required or allowed to work for more
than five hours before he has had an
interval for rest and meals of at least
half an hour.
The periods of work on any
day of an adult person shall
be so arranged that inclusive
of his interval for rest or
meals as required under
Section 10, they shall not
spread over more than ten
and a half hours in any
commercial establishment or
for more than twelve hours in
any shop.
Every shop and commercial
establishment shall remain
closed on a close day
Tamil Nadu The periods of work of a
person employed in an
establishment shall be so
arranged that along with his
intervals for rest, they shall
not spread over more than
twelve hours in any day.
Every person employed in an
establishment shall be
allowed in each week a
holiday of one whole day:
Interval of Rest, Spread Hours of Work & Weekly Off

12. States Interval of Rest Spread over of working
hours
Weekly off
Uttar Pradesh interval of not less than half an hour
for rest after not more than five
hours of continuous work.
spread-over more than
twelve hours in one day:
Any one day in a week
West Bengal required or permitted to work in such
establishment for more than five
hours and a half in any one day
unless he has been allowed an
interval for rest of at least one hour
during that day.
intervals for rest of every
person employed in an
establishment shall be
arranged by the employer
of such person so that
together they do not extend
over more than ten hours
and a half in any one day.
The day and the half day
during which a shop or an
establishment shall be
entirely closed in each wee
Interval of Rest, Spread Hours of Work & Weekly Off

13. Leave, Other holidays & Pay for leave/Holidays
States Casual
leave
Sick
leav
e
Privilege
leave
Accum
ulation
of
leave
Other Paid Holidays Pay for leave/Holidays
Andhra
Pradesh
12 12 15
(15 days in
subsequent
year on
completion
of 240 days
,)
60 (1) Every employee in any
establishment shall also be
entitled to nine holidays in a
year with wages. the 26th
January (Republic Day ), 1st
May (May Day), 15th August
(Independence Day), 2nd
October (Gandhi Jayanthi )
and 1st November (Andhra
Pradesh Formation Day) and
on every such holiday, all the
establishments, either with or
without employees shall
remain closed.
any such holiday declared under
sub-section (1) or sub-section (2),
subject to the condition that in lieu
thereof, a compensatory holiday with
wages shall be allowed to such person
within thirty days from the date of such
holiday ;Provided further that, such
establishment is required to work on
any such compensatory holiday he
shall be paid additional wages at the
ordinary rate of wages in lieu of such
holiday.

14. States Casual
leave
Sick
leave
Privilege
leave
Accumulati
on of leave
Other Paid
Holidays
Pay for leave/Holidays
Gujarat 7 7 21 63 7 Paid holidays Every employee shall be
paid for the period of his
leave at a rate equivalent
to the daily average of his
wages for the days on
which he actually worked
during the preceding three
months, exclusive of any
earnings in respect of
overtime.
Karnataka …… 12 1 day for every
twenty days of
work performed
by him in case of
an adult;
30
Leave, Other holidays & Pay for leave/Holidays

15. States Casual
leave
Sick
leave
Privilege leave Accumulation
of leave
Other Paid Holidays Pay for leave/Holidays
Madhya
Pradesh
14 ……. 30 90
Maharashtra 8 …. 21
1 day for every
20 days worked
240 days in a
year.
45 8 Employee shall be paid
double the amount of the
daily average wages and
also leave on any other day
in lieu of the compulsory
holiday
Punjab 7 7 20
not less than
twenty days in a
year shall be
entitled to one
day's earned
leave for every
such twenty days:
40 a) a holiday with wages
on the Independence
Day, republic Day and
Mahatma Gandhi's
birthday; and (b) three
other holidays with
wages in a year in
connection with such
festivals as government
may declare from time
to time by notification;
Leave, Other holidays & Pay for leave/Holidays

16. States Casua
l leave
Sick
leave
Privilege leave Accumulati
on of leave
Other Paid Holidays Pay for leave/Holidays
Tamil Nadu 12 12 12 24
Uttar Pradesh 10 15 15 45 1) Republic day
2) Holi Parewa
3) Birthday of Dr
Ambedkar
4) Independence Day
5) Birthday of
Mahatma Gandhi
6) Diwali Parewa
7) Kartiki Poornima
8) Idul Fitr.
West Bengal 10 14
(Accumul
ation up
to 56
days)
14 28
Leave, Other holidays & Pay for leave/Holidays

17. Overtime Hours Limit and Overtime wages & Penalties
States Overtime hours Limit/Overtime wages Penalties
Andhra Pradesh rate of wages and in respect of work in excess of eight hours a
day and forty eight hours a week at twice the ordinary rate of
wages, in addition to the wages for the normal hours of work.
Any employer who makes any false or incorrect statement ,
or contravene the provision shall be punishable with fine
which may extend from one hundred rupees to 10000.
Goa, Diu-Daman allowed to work in a shop for any period in excess of the limit
fixed under sub-section (1), on payment of overtime wages,
subject however that the maximum period of such excess in a
week shall be six hours.
First offence Rs.250/- Second offence 500/- third and
subsequent offence 1500 to 2000/-I (2) in case of non
possession of registration the fine is 100/- per day on
continuing of offence.
Gujarat [Where an employee in any establishment other than a
residential hotel restaurant or eating house is required to work
in excess of limit of hours of work, he shall be entitled, in
respect of the overtime work, wages at the rate of twice his
ordinary rate of wages.
If any person contravenes the provisions of section 12, he
shall, on conviction, [be punished for each offence with fine
which shall not be less than] [10 rupees] and which may
extend may extend to 50 rupees.
Karnataka total number of hours of work including overtime shall not
exceed ten hours in any day that the total number of overtime
hours worked by an employee does not exceed fifty in a period
of three continuous months.
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.
) The jurisdictional Labour Officer in lieu of prosecution may
compound the offenses punishable under this Act or the rules
made thereunder, except the offenses punishable under
Sections 24 and 25, at the option of the offending employer
before or after the institution of the prosecution by levying a
sum not exceeding two thousand but not less than rupees
one thousand for the first offense and and for the second or
subsequent same offense, a sum not exceeding rupees five
thousand but not less than rupees two thousand.

18. States Overtime hours Limit/Overtime wages Penalties
Madhya Pradesh ) Any employee may be required or allowed to
work in a shop or commercial establishment
for any period in excess of the limit fixed
under subsection (1) if such period does not
exceed six hours in any week. Where an
employee in any establishment is required to
work in excess of the limit of hours of work, he
shall be entitled, in respect of the overtime
work, ,to wages at the rate of twice his
ordinary rate of wages. [Explanation.- For the
purposes of this section, "limit of hours of
work" shall mean--
The employer and the manager shall, on conviction
each be punished with fine which shall not be less
than fifty rupees and which may extend to five
hundred rupees, if on continuing further it will be
fine with 50 rupees per day.
Maharashtra Any employee may be required or allowed to
work in a shop or commercial establishment
for any period in excess of the limit fixed
under sub-section (1), if such period does not
exceed [six] hours in any week.
penalty on contravention of certain provision and
offences may extend from 100 to rupees five
thousand.
Overtime Hours Limit and Overtime wages & Penalties

19. States Overtime hours Limit/Overtime wages Penalties
Tamil Nadu any period in excess of the limit fixed under
this sub-section subject to payment of
overtime wages, if the period of work,
including overtime work, does not exceed ten
hours in any day and in the aggregate
fifty-four hours in any week. Where any
person employed in any establishment is
required to work overtime, he shall be
entitled, in respect of such overtime work, to
wages at twice the ordinary rate of wages.
employer who contravenes any of the
provisions of the sections 7, 9 to 11, 13 to 23,
25, 26, 29 to 41 and 47 shall be punishable for
a first offence, with fine which may extend to
twenty-five rupees, and for a second or
subsequent offence , with fine which may
extended to two hundred and fifty rupee
Uttar Pradesh required or allowed to work longer than the
aforesaid hours of work, so however, that the
total number of hours of work including
overtime does not exceed ten and total
number of hours of overtime work shall not
exceed fifty in any quarter.
shall be paid by his employer, wages at twice
the ordinary rate, for every overtime worked.
Any person guilty of an offence under this Act
shall be liable to fine which may, for the first
offence, extend to one hundred rupees and, for
every subsequent offence, to five hundred
rupees.
Overtime Hours Limit and Overtime wages & Penalties

20. Overtime Hours Limit and Overtime wages & Penalties
West Bengal The total number of hours of his work including overtime work
shall not exceed ten hours in any one day, and the total number
of hours worked overtime by him shall not exceed one hundred
and twenty hours in any one year.The wages payable to such
person in respect of such over-time shall be calculated at twice
the ordinary rate of wages payable to him, and such ordinary
rate of wages.
Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of this Act, shall, or
conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to five
hundred rupees for the first offence. Whoever contravenes, after
the first offence, any of the provision of this Act, shall be
punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
three months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand
rupees, or with both :

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