Applies to this profile · S&E 9/48 on a six-day week, 10/48 on a five-day · OSH default 8/48

Working hours

Daily / weekly caps, state-wise.

Assam's own rules · researched

Central notifications are shown in their own panel. Everything below is Assam-specific, researched and not yet checked against an official source.

Assam is the only State on this desk whose daily limit depends on how many days a week are worked. Nine hours on a six-day week, ten on a five-day week, forty-eight hours either way.

Not yet verified against an official source

Assam Shops and Establishments Act, 2022 (Assam Act III of 2025), as substituted in 2025

Establishments the Act reaches: All of them — but nothing registers, and from 10 workers the Act applies alongside the OSH CodeSection 6, which required registration, was omitted outright. An establishment employing fewer than 10 workers gives an online intimation within sixty days of commencing business instead. From 10 workers, every provision of the Act not already contained in the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 applies.Section 9 of the Assam Shops and Establishment (Amendment) Act, 2026 — Assam Act XVII of 2026, Assam Gazette Extraordinary No. 513 of 2 September 2026, omitting section 6, and section 10, substituting section 7
Daily limit — six-day week: 9 hoursThe spread-over may not exceed 10.5 hours in a day.Section 4 of the Assam Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Act, 2025 — Assam Gazette Extraordinary of 9 February 2026, substituting section 13(1)(i)
Daily limit — five-day week: 10 hoursThe spread-over may not exceed 12 hours in a day, and the extra hour is subject to overtime wages at double the normal rate.Section 4 of the Assam Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Act, 2025 — Assam Gazette Extraordinary of 9 February 2026, substituting section 13(1)(ii)
Weekly limit: 48 hoursSection 4 of the Assam Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Act, 2025 — Assam Gazette Extraordinary of 9 February 2026, substituting section 13(1)
Hours in a shift: 10 hours including the rest intervalWhere a worker is entrusted with work of an intermittent or urgent nature the spread-over may not exceed 12 hours. The 2022 Act's own text read "four and half hours" here, which could not stand beside a nine-hour day; the substituted section replaces it and the question no longer arises.Section 4 of the Assam Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Act, 2025 — Assam Gazette Extraordinary of 9 February 2026, substituting section 13(2)
Rest interval: At least 30 minutes after 6 continuous hoursThe 2022 Act required the interval after five hours.Section 4 of the Assam Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Act, 2025 — Assam Gazette Extraordinary of 9 February 2026, substituting section 13(4)

OSH Code, 2020

Daily limit: 8 hoursOccupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
Weekly limit: 48 hoursOccupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
Rest interval: 30 minutes after 5 hours of continuous workOccupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 s.25(1)(b)
Spread-over: Not yet addedSet by rules
Overtime cap: Not yet addedSet by rules