(1) A department or any section of a department of the shop or establishment may work in more than one shift and if more than one shift is worked, the worker may be required to work in any shift on rotational basis without overlapping the shift and subject to the conditions as may be prescribed under rules.
(2) The period and hours of work in a week for all classes of workers in such shift shall be informed to all workers in writing and shall be sent to the Inspector cum Facilitator electronically or otherwise.
(3) Where a worker is required to work on a day of rest, he shall be entitled to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages:
Provided that a shop or an establishment to which this Act applies, in case of urgency/ exigency, may work on all days (24x7) in a week, subject to certain conditions, by a general or special order issued in this behalf by the Labour Commissioner for a period of one year in the first instance, which shall be further extended on two yearly basis subject to satisfactory implementation of the provisions contained in the Act and rules made there under and subject to the fulfilment of following conditions:- i. that every worker engaged in the establishment shall be allowed a weekly paid holiday of at least twenty four consecutive hours of rest.
ii. if a worker is denied a weekly holiday in case of any exigency of work, he shall be allowed compensatory paid leave in lieu of such weekly holiday within next two months.
iii. no worker shall be allowed to work for more than ten hours a day with one hour rest and fourty-eight hours in a week.
iv. the shifts of work as far as practicable be arranged on rotational basis without overlapping and in no case the spread over shall exceed twelve hours a day.
v. a security amount of Rs. 1500/- (one thousand five 10 The J&K Official Gazette, 1st Nov., 2025/ 10th Kart., 1947. [No. 32-3 hundred) per worker in the shape of bank draft pledged towards the Assistant Labour Commissioner be submitted along with the application for permission. The security amount shall be refundable up to a period of two years subject to satisfactory compliance of the Labour laws in the establishment:
Provided further that a separate account for this purpose be opened in the office of Assistant Labour Commissioner, and the unclaimed amount shall be utilized for result oriented inspections under the Act, as may be prescribed under the rules.
CHAPTER IV LEAVE AND HOLIDAYS