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Working hours rules in Rajasthan
What the Shops and Establishments Act applicable in Rajasthan sets for daily and weekly hours, spread-over, rest intervals, overtime and night-shift work — the rules that govern employers in Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur. Every value below links to the source it was verified against.
- Governing Act
- Rajasthan Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958 (Act 31 of 1958), as amended by the Amendment Act, 2026 (Act 5 of 2026) — deemed in force from 17 December 2025prsindia.org ↗
- Maximum daily hours
- 10 hours (s.7(1), raised from 9 by the 2026 amendment). A proviso caps total hours including overtime at 10 per day, except on stock-taking and accounts daysprsindia.org ↗
- Maximum weekly hours
- 48 hours (s.7(1), unamended)indiacode.nic.in ↗
- Spread-over limit
- 12 hours in any day, inclusive of the rest interval (s.10, unamended)indiacode.nic.in ↗
- Rest interval
- At least 30 minutes, and no work period may exceed 6 hours before it (s.9 — the 2026 amendment replaced “five” with “six”)prsindia.org ↗
- Overtime rate
- 1.5× the ordinary rate of wages (s.8(1)). Note: s.8 was not amended, so the premium still triggers past 9 hours a day even though s.7 now permits 10indiacode.nic.in ↗
- Overtime cap
- 144 hours per quarter (s.7(1) second proviso, raised from 50 by the 2026 amendment)prsindia.org ↗
- Weekly off
- One day per week. Notification S.O.20 of 19 June 2026 exempts registered establishments from ss.11(1) and 12(1) on condition that one day's paid weekly rest is given in rotation; s.12(3) (one whole rest day per employee per week) remains in forcelabour.rajasthan.gov.in ↗
- Women on night shifts
- Prohibited by s.22 by default (“night” defined in s.2(11) as ≥12 consecutive hours including 10pm–6am), lifted for registered shops and commercial establishments by exemption under s.3(2)labour.rajasthan.gov.in ↗
- IT/ITES exemption
- No IT/ITES-specific exemption exists. Rajasthan grants economy-wide exemptions to all registered shops and commercial establishments instead, so IT firms are covered as commercial establishments rather than by sectorlabour.rajasthan.gov.in ↗
Notes on Rajasthan
- →The 2026 amendment raised daily hours to 10 but left the overtime section untouched — so hours 9 to 10 are permitted without being overtime-rated on the face of the statute. Take advice before relying on that reading.
- →Rajasthan is unusual in paying overtime at 1.5×, not the 2× most states apply.
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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