West Bengal Shops and Establishments Act, 1963 (West Ben. Act XIII of 1963), as reprinted in the West Bengal Labour Gazette 2011
- Notification number
- None — this document carries no number
- Issued for
- West Bengal
- Date
- 31 December 2011
- Topic
- Act
What it says
Weekly closing of one full day with a day and a half's holiday for every employee; shops open no earlier than 8 a.m. and close no later than 8 p.m., hotels and restaurants by 11 p.m.; eight and a half hours a day and forty-eight a week, overtime to ten hours a day and one hundred and twenty a year, an hour's rest after five and a half hours and a spread-over of ten and a half; privilege leave fourteen days accumulable to twenty-eight, sick leave fourteen days on half pay accumulable to fifty-six, casual leave ten days; overtime at twice the ordinary rate; wages by the tenth of the following mo
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: Holiday list · West Bengal, Working hours · West Bengal, Leaves — CL / SL / EL / ML · West Bengal, Shops and Establishment Act · West Bengal, Overtime · West Bengal, Salary payment day · West Bengal, Timing of establishment · West Bengal, Women workers · West Bengal.
- Weekly
- One full day closed a week, with a day and a half's holiday for every employee
- Hours.Daily
- 8.5 hours a day
- Hours.Weekly
- 48 hours a week
- Leave.Carry
- Privilege leave to 28 days, sick leave to 56; casual leave not accumulable
- Leave.Casual
- 10 days casual on full pay, and 14 days sick on half pay
- Leave.Privilege
- 14 days on full pay for every completed year
- Registration.Renewal
- Within thirty days after every three years
- Overtime.Cap
- 10 hours a day including overtime, and 120 hours of overtime a year
- Overtime.Rate
- Twice the ordinary rate of wages
- Wages.Due
- Not later than the 10th of the following month
- Opening.Hours
- A shop opens no earlier than 8 a.m. and closes no later than 8 p.m.
- Night.Work
- No woman after 8 p.m. in a shop or commercial establishment