(1) No adult employee in any establishment shall be required or permitted to work Daily and - weekly hours. for more than nine hours in any day or forty-eight hours in any one 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 hours worked overtime by an employee shall not exceed fifty hours in a period of three continuous months.
(2) No young person shall be required or permitted to work in any establishment for more than five hours in any day.
8. (/) Where an adult employee works in any establishment for more than nine hours inany day or 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.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section, “normal wages™ means the basic wages and such allowances including the cash equivalent of the advantage accruing through concessional sale toa worker of foodgrains and other articles, as the employee is for the time being entitled to, but does not include bonus.
(2) The cash cquivalent of the advantage accruing through the concessional sale of foodgrains and other articles to an employee shall be computed in the prescribed condition and manner on the basis of the maximum quantity of foodgrains and other articles admissible to a standard family.
Explanation—TFor the purposes of this sub-section,— (@) “standard family” means a family consisting of an employee, his spouse and his two children below the age of fourteen years requiring in all threc adult consumption nits;
(b) “adult consumption unit” means the consumption unit of amale or a female above the age of fourteen years and the consumption unit of a person below the age of fourteen years shall be calculated at the rate of one-half of an adult consumption unit,
(3) The Administrator may, by order, specify—-
(a) the manner in which the cash equivalent of the advantage accruing through the concessional sale to an employee of foodgrains and other articles shall be computed;
and .
(b) the registers which shall be maintained in an q\;tabhshment for the purpose of securing compliance with the provisions of this scction.
9. The period of werk in an establishment during ¢ach day shall be so fixed that— (@) no adult employee shall be required or permizt-d to work continuousty for more than five hours; and
(b) no young person shall be required or permitied to work continuously for more than three hours, before he has had an intefval for rest of-at least one hour Exira wages for overtime work.
Interval for rest.
Spread over.
Opening and closing hours Weekly holiday.
Selling outside establishments prohibited after closing hours Leave.
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10. The periods of work and intervals for rest in an establishment shall be so arranged by the employer that it should not spread over for more than twelve hours in the case of an adult employee, and eight hours in the case of a young person, on any day.