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Working hours rules in Himachal Pradesh
What the Shops and Establishments Act applicable in Himachal Pradesh sets for daily and weekly hours, spread-over, rest intervals, overtime and night-shift work — the rules that govern employers in Shimla, Baddi. Every value below links to the source it was verified against.
- Governing Act
- Himachal Pradesh Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1969 (Act 10 of 1970), as amended by the Amendment Act, 2025 (assent 9 February 2026)prsindia.org ↗
- Maximum daily hours
- 9 hours in any one day (s.7(1), unchanged by the 2025 amendment)prsindia.org ↗
- Maximum weekly hours
- 48 hours in any one week (s.7(1), unchanged)prsindia.org ↗
- Spread-over limit
- 10 hours in a day, inclusive of the rest interval (s.8(2)) — tighter than the 12 hours most states allowprsindia.org ↗
- Rest interval
- At least half an hour after no more than 5 hours of work; watchmen and guards excepted (s.8(1))prsindia.org ↗
- Overtime rate
- Twice the normal hourly wage; “normal wages” means basic plus allowances and excludes bonus (s.7(2) proviso (b))prsindia.org ↗
- Overtime cap
- 144 hours in any one quarter (s.7(2) proviso (a), raised from 50 by the 2025 amendment)uncomplycate.com ↗
- Weekly off
- A prescribed close-day per week (s.10); no employee to work on the close-day or on one day in a week in other establishments (s.11), with a watchman exception where another off day is givenprsindia.org ↗
- Women on night shifts
- s.29(1) prohibits night work by women. Notification LEP-A003/15/2023-Pt-II exempts all shops and commercial establishments, valid one year from gazette publication, subject to written consent, employer transport with CCTV and GPS, workplace CCTV, lighting, amenities and POSH complianceSources disagree: the same notification number is reported with two different dates by different trackersteamleaseregtech.com ↗Secondary source
- IT/ITES exemption
- No IT/ITES exemption under the Shops Act. The IT/ITES night-work notification that exists (Shram (A)3-4/2022 of 12 August 2022) was issued under s.28 of the Factories Act, so it governs factories rather than shops and officesteamleaseregtech.com ↗Secondary source
Notes on Himachal Pradesh
- →The 2025 amendment is narrow: it raised the overtime cap and set a 10-employee registration threshold. Daily hours, spread-over, rest intervals and the overtime rate were untouched.
- →The women's night-shift exemption is time-limited to one year from publication — check whether it has been renewed before relying on it.
Verify before you rely on it. State rules are amended by notification, exemptions for IT/ITES establishments are often time-bound and renewed separately, and the Labour Codes continue to be brought into force state by state. This page records what we could verify against a named source at the time of writing — it is general information, not legal advice, and it does not replace reading your state's current rules or asking your compliance advisor.
Keeping to these limits in practice
Limits are only enforceable against a record. Workclave captures every work session with its start, stop and breaks, applies your workspace's shift and break rules, and produces the statutory attendance register from the same data — so daily, weekly and overtime totals are computed as work happens rather than reconstructed at month end. Multi-state employers can configure rules per workspace.
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