The Goa Shops and Establishments Act, 1973 — Physical PDF page 8 of 23

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   11. Daily and weekly hours of work in establishment.— (1) Subject to other
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 be 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,
so however that the maximum period of such excess shall be 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 fifteen 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 aggregate, exceed twenty-four hours.

   12. 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.
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   13. Spread over of periods of work.— The periods of work of an employee in an
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establishment shall be so arranged that, along with his interval for rest, they shall not
spread over more than twelve hours in any day:
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  Provided that where an employee works on any day for the purpose of stock-taking
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and preparation of accounts, the spread over shall not exceed fourteen hours in any such
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   14. Holidays.— (1) Every employee in an establishment shall be allowed in each week
a holiday of one whole day:
   Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to an employee whose total period
of employment in the week including the 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 afternoon as may be fixed by the
Government.
   (3) The Government may, for the purpose 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 none the less 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 on any day or part of a day on which a holiday has been allowed
in accordance with this section.
                                        CHAPTER IV

              Employment of children, young persons and women
   15. Children not to work in establishment.— No child shall be required or allowed
to work in any establishment.