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Objectives
- To provide statutory obligation and rights to employees and employers in the unorganised sector of employment, i.e., shops and establishments.

Scope And Coverage
- A state legislation; each state has framed its own rules for the Act.

- Applicable to all persons employed in an establishments with or without wages, except the members of the employer's family.

- State government can exempt, either permanently or for a specified period, any establishments from all or any provisions of this Act.

Main Provisions
- Compulsory registration of shop/establishment within thirty days of commencement of work.

- Communications of closure of the establishment within 15 days from the closing of the establishment.

- Lays down the hours of work per day and week.

- Lays down guidelines for spread-over, rest interval, opening and closing hours, closed days, national and religious holidays, overtime work.

- Rules for employment of children, young persons and women

- Rules for annual leave, maternity leave, sickness and casual leave, etc.

- Rules for employment and termination of service.

- Maintenance of registers and records and display of notices.

- Obligations of employers.

- Obligations of employees.

When To Consult And Refer
- At the time of start of an enterprise.

- When framing personnel policies and rules