Assam Act No. VII of 2026
Assam Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Act, 2025, Assam Gazette Extraordinary of 9 February 2026
- Notification number
- Assam Act No. VII of 2026
- Issued for
- Assam
- Date
- 9 February 2026
- Topic
- Act
What it says
Substitutes section 13 whole - nine hours a day on a six-day week with a ten and a half hour spread-over, ten hours on a five-day week with twelve, forty-eight hours a week either way, a quarterly overtime ceiling of 144 hours and a half-hour rest after six continuous hours - and substitutes section 11, barring discrimination on the ground of gender and allowing women to work between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. on written consent with security, surveillance, transport, restrooms, additional paid holidays and rest between shifts.
What was taken from it
The figures and statements this desk reads off this document, as extracted. Each one is shown on the topic page it belongs to: Working hours · Assam, Overtime · Assam, Women workers · Assam.
- Hours.Daily
- 9 hours in any day for those working six days in a week, and 10 hours for those working five days
- Hours.Interval
- No worker may work continuously for more than six hours without an interval for rest of at least half an hour
- Hours.Shift
- 10 hours in a shift including the rest interval, and a spread-over not exceeding twelve hours for intermittent or urgent work
- Hours.Weekly
- 48 hours in any week, whichever pattern is worked
- Overtime.Cap
- 144 hours in a period of three months
- Women.Discrimination
- No discrimination among employees on the ground of gender in matters of recruitment, training, transfer, promotion or wages
- Women.Employer.Duty
- To prevent or deter sexual harassment and provide procedures for its resolution, taking all steps required under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013
- Women.Night
- A woman may work between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. on her written consent