(1) Subject to the 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.
(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 over-time wages, subject to a maximum period of six hours in any week.
(3) For the purposes of stock taking and preparation of accounts, an employer may, with the previous intimation to the Inspector, require or allow any employee to work in an establishment for not more than any six days in a year, in excess of the period fixed in sub-section (1) on payment of overtime wages; so however, that the excess period shall not, in the aggregate, exceed twenty-four hours.
17. No employee in any establishment shall be required or allowed to work in such establishment for more than five Opening and closing hours.
Daily and weekly hours of work.
Interval for rest.
[Act No.20 of 1988] 15 hours in any day unless he has had an interval for rest of at least one hour:
Provided that the Chief Inspector may, in the case of an establishment whose daily 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.
18. 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:
Provided that, where an employee works on any day for the purpose of stock taking and preparation of accounts the spread over shall not exceed fourteen hours on any such day on payment of over-time wages.