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Working hours rules in Chandigarh
What the Shops and Establishments Act applicable in Chandigarh sets for daily and weekly hours, spread-over, rest intervals, overtime and night-shift work — the rules that govern employers in Chandigarh IT Park. Every value below links to the source it was verified against.
- Governing Act
- Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958 as applicable to the Union Territory of Chandigarh; the 2025 Punjab amendment was extended to Chandigarh by MHA Notification S.O. 5647(E) of December 2025uncomplycate.com ↗
- Maximum daily hours
- 10 hours a day (condition 6 of the exemption notification, as amended 18 March 2026; previously 9)teamleaseregtech.com ↗Secondary source
- Maximum weekly hours
- 48 hours a week (condition 6)uncomplycate.com ↗
- Spread-over limit
- 12 hours including the rest interval (condition 13, as amended 18 March 2026; previously 10)teamleaseregtech.com ↗Secondary source
- Rest interval
- At least half an hour after 5 hours of continuous work (condition 5)uncomplycate.com ↗
- Overtime rate
- Twice the normal hourly wage (condition 15(ii))uncomplycate.com ↗
- Overtime cap
- 144 hours per quarter (condition 15(i), as amended 18 March 2026; previously 50)teamleaseregtech.com ↗Secondary source
- Weekly off
- One day of rest per week with no wage deduction, with the timetable posted on the notice board in advance (condition 4). Establishments may otherwise open 365 days a year, 24 hours (condition 2)uncomplycate.com ↗
- Women on night shifts
- Written consent required to work after 8pm (condition 9), plus the most prescriptive conditions of any state we checked: licensed security and transport contractor, GPS-enabled vehicles, boarding and movement registers, no tinted glass, the driver may not pick her up first or drop her last and must wait until she is inside, annual self-defence workshops, and a minimum of five women per night shift (condition 10)uncomplycate.com ↗
- IT/ITES exemption
- No IT/ITES-specific instrument, and none is needed: the 14 August 2025 exemption notification is sector-neutral and covers all registered shops and commercial establishments. It has no expiry and runs unless revokeduncomplycate.com ↗
Notes on Chandigarh
- →Chandigarh's operative rules come from a s.28 exemption notification (14 August 2025, gazette no. 118) rather than from the statute directly — so the figures above are exemption conditions, and the exemption can be revoked.
- →CCTV with at least 15 days of backup and an emergency alarm are mandatory conditions of the exemption (conditions 18 and 19).
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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