(1) Every employer shall take such measures relating to the health and safety of the workers including cleanliness, lighting, ventilation and prevention of fire as may be prescribed.
(2) Every employer shall be responsible for providing constant adequate supervision of the workers employed in the shop or establishment and to ensure the compliance with the rules relating to health and safety made under subsection (1) and for taking steps necessary to prevent accidents.
Decide and extension to hours of work 8 (1) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, no adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in shop or an establishment for more than nine hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week. No adult worker shall be asked to work continuously for more than five hours unless he has been given a break of not less than half an hour:
Provided that, the working hours or weekly holiday may be relaxed in case of work of urgent nature with the previous permission of the Facilitator.
(2) The spread-over of a worker in shop or an establishment shall not exceed ten and half hours in any day, and in case a worker entrusted with intermittent nature of work or urgent work, the spread over shall not exceed twelve hours.
(3) Where a worker in shop or an establishment is required to work beyond nine hours a day or forty-eight hours a week, he shall be entitled, in respect of the overtime work, wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages. The total number of overtime hours shall not exceed one hundred and twenty five hours in a period of three - 6 - months.
(4) The State Government shall made following rules-
(a) to fix number of that hours of work subject to sub section (1) in which for the employed employee in the shop or establishment with the specified one or more periods shall be constitute of general working day;
(b) to provide of such day of rest in every duration of seven days who shall be get all employed employee to the shop or establishment and to made provisions of payment of remuneration for such days of rest.
(5) The provisions of sub section (1) and sub section (2) shall be applicable subject to the only that extension and such conditions in relation of following categories of employed employees in such shop or establishment as may be prescribed, namely-
(a) the working employees in most urgent work or any emergency which prior guess is not possible or cannot be prevent;
(b) the working employees in the initial nature or supplementary work in which to be made necessarily before or after the general hours of mentioned work in the rules;
(c) the working employees in such work who is made complete before the ending of days for technical causes;
(d) the working employees shall not be made except the time depend on uncontrolled proceedings for the natural powers; and
(e) most competent employees who is working in the shop or establishment of any information technology, bio-technology and research and development section.
Wages for overtime.
9 Where a worker in shop or an establishment is required to work beyond nine hours a day or forty-eight hours a week, he shall be entitled, in respect of the overtime work, wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages, as may be prescribed.
Changes in the period of work and rest