(1) The number of hours which shall constitute a normal working day shall be- ’
(a) in the case of an adult, 9 hours; ¢
(b)in the case of an adolescent, 7 hours;
(c) in the case of a child, 4 1/2 hours:
Provided that in respect of employment in public motor transport, no adult employee shall be required or allowed to work for more than 8 hours in a day or forty-eight hours in a week.
(2) The period of work of an adult or an adolescent employee each day shall be so fixed that no periods shall exceed five hours and that no employee shall work for more than five hours before he has had an interval for rest of at least half an hour: 3 ‘
Provided that the State Government or the Commissioner of Labour may, by written order and for the reasons specified therein allow any employee in a scheduled employment to work for more than five hours without an interval for rest so however, that the.total number of hours worked by the employee without an interval does not exceed six.
(3) The period of work of an adult or an adolescent employee shall be so arranged that.inclusive of his intervals for rest under sub-rule (2), they shall not spread over more than twelve hours in any day in respect of employment in public motor transport or employment in a tramway undertaking of a local authority and ten and a half hour in any day in respect of any other scheduled employment not being employment under a local authority as lamp-lighters, gully flushing staff of the Conservancy Department and octroi inspectors:
Provided that the State Government or any other officer not below the rank of the Deputy Commissioner of Labour may, by an order in writing, exempt any employee or category of employees employed in any scheduled employment from the provisions of sub-rule (3), regard being had to the nature of the employment and the service conditions of the employee
(4) The periods of work in the case of a child employee shall be so arranged that it shall not spread-over more than five hours in any day.
() The provisions of sub-section (1) of the section 13 and rule 23 and rule 24 shall not apply in relation to the classes of employees shown-in column (1) to the extent stated in column (2) subject to conditions in column (3) of the schedule " appended below:- G Scanned with OKEN Scanner iges Rules, 1963 e The Maharashtra Mini m Way The Minimum Wages Rules, ;1963
SCHEDULE Class of employees The extent to which Condition i f the provisions 0 sections 13(1) sha_ll not apply @ (1)
(a) Employee engaged on urgent work or in any emergency which could not have been forseen or prevented
(b) Employee engaged in work in the nature of. preparatory. or complementary work which must necessarily be carried on outside’ limits laid down for the general -~ employment - working . in concerned. - the
(c) Employee whose emplcyment’ z is essentially intermittent. -
(d) Employees engayged in-any work” which for * technical reasons has to be completed before the duty is over.
(e) Employees engaged in a work which : could not be carried on.
-except at times dependent on the irregular auction or natural forces.
Section 13(1)(@) and (b) .
* Section 13(1)b) » Sedlont3() @ ‘Secton 13 (1)(a) Section 13 (1) (a) ~be granted ‘over-time @
(1) The emm granted wages for oyg,y:
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(2) The employees shay granted a holiday in |i:flb;
any weekly holiday on which such - employees work a soon as after such ent work or emergency is oygy The employee sha - be granted wages for overiime work in accordance with ryjg
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Normal working - not exceed after such work is over.
(1) The employees shall be granted a holiday in lieu of any weekly holiday on which © such employees work @S soon after as such work i over, G Scanned with OKEN Scanner The Maharashtra Minimum Wages Rules, 1963~ : el .
'(6) The provisions of subrules (1), (2)* and (3), shall in the case of emfilpyees in agricultural employment, be subject to such modifications as may, from time to time, be notified by the State Government. - ;
¥(7) Nothing in this rule shall be deemed to affect the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948, and of the Bombay Shops and Establishment Act, 1948.
Explanation.- In computing the hours of work for the purpoée of sub-rule () the time during which an employee is at the disposal of the .employer, shall- be included; but the period of rest provided in sub-rule (2) shall be excluded:
Provided that in the case of employment in public motor trar{sport the following and no other periods shall be included in computing the hours of work = (i the time spent in work during the running time of the vehicle; *; -/ - (il the time spent in any subsidiary work: and :
(iii) the periods of mere attendance at terminals of less than 15 minutes.
“[24A. Proportionate wages for working less than normal working day.- An employee working in an agricultural employment, whose minimum rate of wages has been fixed by the day, shall, if he works for a period of less than the requisite number of hours, constituting a normal working day, be entitled to receive wages proportionate to the hours of work for which he is employed on stich day..