14. Application of this Chapter to establishments other than shops :- The provisions of this Chapter shall apply only to establishments other than shops.
15. Opening and closing hours :- (1) No establishment shall on any day be opened earlier, or closed later, than such hour as may, after previous publication, be fixed by the Government by general or special order in that behalf:
Provided that, in the case of a restaurant or eating house, any customer who was being served or was waiting to be served therein at the hour fixed for its closing may be served during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour.
(2) The Government may, for the purpose of this section, fix different hours for different classes of establishments or for different areas or for different times of the year.
16. Daily and weekly hours of work :- (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no employee in any establishment shall be required or allowed to work therein for more than eight hours in any day and forty eight hours in any week.
(2) Any employee may required or allowed to work in an establishment for any period in excess of the limit fixed under sub section (1), on payment of over time wages, subject to a maximum period of six hours in any week.
(3) For the purposes of stock taking and preparation of accounts, an employer may, with the previous intimation to the Inspector, require or allow any employee to work in an establishment for not more than any six days in a year in excess of the period fixed in sub section (1) on payment of overtime wages; so however, that the excess period shall not, in the aggregate, exceed twenty four hours.
17. Interval for rest :- No employee in any establishment shall be required or allowed to work in such establishment for more than five hours in any day unless he has had an interval for rest of at least one hour.
Provided that the Chief Inspector may, in the case of an establishment whose daily hours of work are less than eight hours, reduce interval for rest to half an hour on an application made by the employer, with the consent of the employees.
18. Spread over of periods of work :- The periods of work of an employee in an establishment shall be so arranged that, along with his interval for rest, they shall not spread over for more than twelve hours on any day:
Provided that, where an employee works on any day for the purpose of stock taking and preparation of accounts the spread over shall not exceed fourteen hours on any such day on payment of over time wage.
19. Holidays :- (1) Every employee in any establishment shall be allowed in each week a holiday of one whole day:
Provided that, nothing in this sub section shall apply to any employee whose total period of employment in the week, including any days spent on authorised leave is less than six days.
(2) The Government may, by notification, require in respect of any specified class of establishments that every employee therein shall be allowed in each week an additional holiday of one half day commencing at such hour in the after noon as may be fixed by the Government.
(3) The Government may, for the purposes of sub section (2) fix different hours for different classes of establishments or for different areas or for different times of the year.
(4) No deduction shall be made from the wages of any employee in an establishment on account of any day or part of a day on which a holiday has been allowed in accordance with this section and if such employee is employed on the basis that he would not ordinarily receive wages for such day or part of a day, he shall nonetheless be paid for such day or part of a day the wages he would have drawn, had the holiday not been allowed on that day or part of a day.
(5) It shall not be lawful for the employer to call an employee at or for the employee to go to, his establishment or any other place for any work in connection with the business of his establishment on any day or part of a day on which a holiday has been allowed in accordance with this section.
