Working hours
Daily / weekly caps, state-wise.
West Bengal's own rules · researched
The panel above is from published central notifications. Everything below is West Bengal-specific, researched and not yet checked against an official source.
Not yet verified against an official source
West Bengal Shops and Establishments Act, 1963
- Daily and weekly limits
- Eight and a half hours a day and forty-eight hours a week, in both shops and establishmentsThis comes from the Labour Department's reprint of the Act in the West Bengal Labour Gazette 2011. Its footnotes run to the amending Act of 2002, so an amendment after that would not appear in this copy; and the scan carries a previous reader's yellow highlighting on the page dealing with the recovery of wages. Neither affects the figures above, and both are said here so the copy can be judged.Sections 6(2) and 7(2)
- Rest interval
- At least one hour, after not more than five and a half hours of workSections 6(3) and 7(3), as amended in 1988
- Spread-over
- Ten and a half hours in a day, counting the rest intervalSections 6(4) and 7(4)
- Young persons
- A person aged twelve to fifteen works at most seven hours a day and forty hours a week, and not more than four hours before an interval of at least an hourSection 8
- Children
- No one under twelve may be employed in any shop or establishmentSection 9
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