(1) In no hotel, restaurant, eating-house or cafe shall the hour of closing be later than eleven o'clock post meridiem.
Hours of work in establishments.
Special provisions for young persons.
6 The West Bengal Shops and Establishments Act, 1963.
[West Ben. Act (Sections 8-10.)
(2) No person employed in an establishment shall be required or permitted to work in such establishment for more than eight hours and a half in any one day or for more than forty-eight hours in any one week or after ;the hour of closing of such establishment :
Provided that a person employed in an establishment may be required or permitted to work overtime in such 'establishment so, however, that—
(i) the total number of hours of his work including overtime work shall not exceed ten hours in any one clay, and
(ii) the total number of hours worked overtime by him shall not exceed one hundred and twenty hours in any one year.'
(3) No person employed in an establishment shall be required or permitted to work in such establishment for more than six hours in any one day unless he has been allowed an interval for rest of at least one hour during that day.
(4) The periods of work and intervals for rest of every person employed in an establishment shall be arranged by the employer of such person so that together they do not extend over more than ten hours and a half in any one day.
8. Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Act,—
(a) no young person employed in a shop or an establishment shall be required or permitted to work in such shop or establishment for more than seven hours in any one day or for more than forty hours in any one week; and
(b) the periods of work of young persons in a shop or an establishment during each day shall be so fixed that no such person shall work for more than four hours before he has had an interval for rest of at least one hour.
Restriction 9. No child who has not completed the age of twelve on employ. years shall be employed in any shop or establishment.
ment of children.
Restriction on employment of young persons or Women.
10. No young person shall be required or permitted to work in any shop or establishment after eight o'clock post meridiem and no woman shall be allowed or permitted to work in any establishment for public entertainment or amusement other than a cinema or a theatre, after six o'clock post 'meridiem, or
(b) in any shop or commercial establishment, after eight o'clock post meridiem,.
(a) The West Bengal Shops and Establishments Act, 1963. 7 )(in Of 1863.]
Ben. Act VI of 1914.
(Sections 11-13.)
11. A person employed in a shop or an establishment shall be entitled—
(a) for every completed year of continuous service, to privilege leave on full pay for fourteen days,
(b) in every year, to sick leave on half pay for fourteen days on. medical certificate obtained from a medical practitioner registered under the Bengal Medical Act, 1914, or any other law for the time being in force,
(c) in every year, to casual leave on full pay for tem days, and (d.) in the case of women, to maternity leave in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed:
Provided that— privilege leave admissible under clause (a) may be accumulated up to a maximum of not more than twenty-eight days;
(ii) sick leave admissible under clause (b) may be accumulated up to a maximum of not more than fifty-six days; and
(iii) casual leave admissible under clause (c) shall not Be accumulated.
Explanation.—In calculating any leave due under this Act, employment in any shop or establishment before the application of this Act shall be taken into account.
12. Any person employed in a shop or an establishment whose services are terminated by or under the orders of the shop-keeper or the employer shall be entitled to wages for the period of privilege leave due to his credit at the time of such termination.
13. When any person employed in a shop or an establishment is required or permitted to work overtime in such shop or establishment, the wages payable to such person in respect af such overtime work shall be calculated at the rate of one and one-half times of the ordinary rate of wages payable to him, and such ordinary rate of wages shall be calculated in such manner as may be prescribed-:
Provided that this section shall not operate to the prejudice of any higher rate of overtime wages granted under any agreement, award, custom or convention.
Explanation.—For the purpose of this section 'overtime work' shall include any work done on any day declared by notification by the state Government to be a National holiday.
(i) Leave.
Person employed to be entitled to wages for the period of privilege leave in case of terminalion of service.
Wages for overtime work.
Payment and recovery of wages.
8 The West Bengal Shops and Establishments Act, 1963.
[West Ben. Act (Section, 14.)