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Section 8: Intervals for rest and meals

The Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958State Act of Punjab · Act 15 of 1958

(1) 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: -

Provided that Government may by notification fix such interval for rest in respect of any class of establishments for the whole of the State of any part thereof as it may consider n necessary.

(2) 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 ten hours in a day.

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ActThe Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958
Section8
Marginal noteIntervals for rest and meals
JurisdictionState of Punjab
StatusIn force as published by the source

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