Odisha Act 01 of 2026
Odisha Shops and Commercial Establishments (Amendment) Act, 2025 - Odisha Act 01 of 2026, Odisha Gazette Extraordinary No. 203 of 16 January 2026
- Notification number
- Odisha Act 01 of 2026
- Issued for
- Odisha
- Date
- 16 January 2026
- Topic
- Act
What it says
Confines the shops Act, except the Odia sign board provision, to establishments of twenty or more employees; takes the daily limit from nine hours to ten and the ceiling including overtime from ten to twelve; raises the quarterly overtime cap from fifty hours to a hundred and forty-four; lets an establishment open 24x7 and for 365 days on a weekly holiday of twenty-four consecutive hours; removes the blanket bar on women working at night and replaces it with a power to permit by notification.
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 · Odisha, Holiday list · Odisha, Working hours · Odisha, Shops and Establishment Act · Odisha, Overtime · Odisha, Timing of establishment · Odisha, Women workers · Odisha.
- Rest.Compensatory
- Compensatory leave in lieu must be given within three months if a weekly holiday is denied
- Holidays.Pay
- No deduction may be made from wages on account of the weekly holiday, and a daily-wage employee is paid for it too
- Holidays.Weekly
- A weekly holiday of at least twenty-four consecutive hours
- Hours.Daily
- 10 hours in any day
- Hours.Including.Overtime
- Total hours of work including overtime shall not exceed twelve hours in any day
- Hours.Interval
- No more than six continuous hours without an interval for rest of at least half an hour
- Hours.Weekly
- 48 hours in any week
- Application
- The Act, except section 4A, applies to establishments employing twenty or more employees
- Registration.By
- Within six months of the date of commencement of business
- Registration.Certificate
- Issued within seven working days, and deemed to have been granted if it is not
- Signboard
- The name of the establishment must be displayed on a sign board in front of it in Odia, prominently, in addition to any other language
- Overtime.Cap
- 144 hours in a period of three months
- Overtime.Rate
- Twice the ordinary rate of wages
- Timing.Days
- Establishments may remain open for 365 days in a year
- Timing.Hours
- Every establishment may remain open 24x7
- Women.Night
- No adolescent may work at night. The blanket prohibition on women working at night has been removed
- Women.Night.Enable
- The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, allow women to be employed at night with their written consent and subject to prescribed conditions of safety, security and dignity