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Working hours rules in Madhya Pradesh
What the Shops and Establishments Act applicable in Madhya Pradesh sets for daily and weekly hours, spread-over, rest intervals, overtime and night-shift work — the rules that govern employers in Indore, Bhopal. Every value below links to the source it was verified against.
- Governing Act
- Madhya Pradesh Shops and Establishments Act, 1958 (Act 25 of 1958) — still the operative law, amended twice in 2025 (overtime cap in September; digitisation in December)indiacode.nic.in ↗
- Maximum daily hours
- 9 hours a day in a shop; 10 hours a day in a commercial establishment (s.11(1)(b)). An IT or software company is normally a commercial establishment, so the 10-hour limit appliesindiacode.nic.in ↗
- Maximum weekly hours
- 48 hours a week (s.11(1)(a))indiacode.nic.in ↗
- Spread-over limit
- 12 hours a day normally; 13 hours where the establishment closes for a continuous 3 hours; 14 hours on an overtime day under s.11(2); 16 hours under s.11(3) (s.12)indiacode.nic.in ↗
- Rest interval
- Not verified — check your state rules
- Overtime rate
- Twice the ordinary rate of wages (s.55)indiacode.nic.in ↗
- Overtime cap
- 144 hours in any quarter (s.11(2), substituted by the 2025 amendment for the previous six hours a week). Separately, s.11(3) permits up to 24 hours of excess work on not more than 6 days a year for accounts and stock-takingteamleaseregtech.com ↗Secondary source
- Weekly off
- Establishment-closure model: the shop or establishment closes one day a week, fixed by the employer at the start of the year and alterable at most once in three months (s.13(1)); wages are payable for the closed day (s.13(4))indiacode.nic.in ↗
- Women on night shifts
- s.25 bars work before 7am and after 9pm. A notification of 27 June 2025 permits 9pm–7am subject to written consent, at least five women per night shift, continuous CCTV, women security guards where more than 10 women work at night, a third of on-duty supervisors being women, a 12-hour gap between shifts, POSH compliance and amenitiesknowledge.dlapiper.com ↗Secondary source
- IT/ITES exemption
- No broad exemption. Notification 229 of 20 May 2013 lifts only the women's 9pm–7am restriction for information technology establishments; working hours, spread-over, opening hours and weekly off are not relaxed for the sectorindianemployees.com ↗Secondary source
Notes on Madhya Pradesh
- →Rest interval is deliberately left unverified. The Act has no general rest-interval provision for adults — the only interval in the statute (s.25A(2)) applies to young persons. Some aggregators state “30 minutes after 5 hours” for MP; that is unsupported by the Act text and appears carried over from another state.
- →Note the shop versus commercial establishment split in daily hours — 9 against 10 — which most summaries flatten into a single figure.
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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