Goa, Daman and Diu Act 13 of 1974
Goa, Daman and Diu Shops and Establishments Act, 1973 (Act 13 of 1974)
- Notification number
- Goa, Daman and Diu Act 13 of 1974
- Issued for
- Goa
- Date
- 31 October 1974
- Topic
- Act
What it says
Eight hours a day and forty-eight a week — a lower daily cap than the nine hours every other State on this desk sets — with overtime at twice the ordinary rate and the excess capped at six hours a week. An hour's rest after five hours, a twelve-hour spread-over, one whole day off each week with no deduction, and fifteen days' leave with wages after 240 days' service accumulating to forty-five. No child may work; a young person only between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m., seven hours a day, never overtime. Six weeks' maternity leave before and after delivery.
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: Establishment calendar · Goa, Holiday list · Goa, Working hours · Goa, Leaves — CL / SL / EL / ML · Goa, Shops and Establishment Act · Goa, Overtime · Goa, Timing of establishment · Goa, Women workers · Goa.
- Half.Day
- The Government may require a specified class of shops or establishments to close for an additional half-day in each week, at an hour it fixes in the afternoon
- Weekly.Off.Protection
- It shall not be lawful for the employer to call an employee at, or for the employee to go to, the shop or establishment or any other place for any work in connection with the business on the closed day
- Holidays.Fixing
- The employer fixes the day at the beginning of the year, notifies it to the Inspector and displays it prominently, and may not alter it more often than once in three months without reasonable cause
- Holidays.Pay
- No deduction shall be made from wages on account of the weekly holiday or of a day on which the establishment remained closed; an employee on daily wages is paid nonetheless
- Holidays.Weekly
- One whole day in each week. It does not apply to an employee whose total period of employment in the week, including days spent on authorised leave, is less than six days
- Hours.Daily
- 8 hours in any day
- Hours.Interval
- No employee shall work more than five hours in any day unless he has had an interval for rest of at least one hour
- Hours.Spreadover
- Twelve hours in any day; fourteen hours where the employee works on stock-taking and preparation of accounts, on payment of overtime wages
- Hours.Weekly
- 48 hours in any week
- Hours.Young
- Seven hours in any day and forty-two hours in any week, and no overtime at all
- Leave.Carry
- 45 days
- Leave.Earned
- 15 days with wages in the subsequent twelve months, for an employee who has served 240 days or more during a continuous period of twelve months
- Leave.Prior.Service
- Any continuous period of service preceding the date on which the Act applies to the establishment counts towards the entitlement, subject to a maximum of twelve months, and leave already accumulated under the earlier law is not affected
- Registration
- Every establishment is registered, and its registration renewed
- Overtime.Cap
- The excess over the daily and weekly limits shall not exceed six hours in any week
- Overtime.Rate
- Twice the ordinary rate of wages
- Overtime.Stocktaking
- For stock-taking and preparation of accounts, with previous intimation to the Inspector, an employer may exceed the limit on not more than fifteen days in a year on payment of overtime wages, the excess not exceeding twenty-four hours in aggregate
- Timing.Grace
- A customer who was being served or was waiting to be served at the hour fixed for closing may be served during the quarter of an hour immediately following
- Timing.Hours
- No shop or establishment shall be opened earlier or closed later than such hour as the Government may, after previous publication in the Official Gazette, specify by general or special order; different hours may be fixed for different classes, areas or times of the year. No such order was obtained
- Women.Children
- No child shall be required or allowed to work in any establishment
- Women.Maternity
- A woman who has been in the continuous employment of the same employer for not less than six months preceding the date of her delivery is entitled to six weeks' leave immediately preceding the day of delivery and six weeks following it
- Women.Young.Night
- No young person shall be required or allowed to work in any establishment before 6 a.m. and after 7 p.m.