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Working hours under the Telangana Shops and Establishments Act
What the Shops and Establishments Act applicable in Telangana sets for daily and weekly hours, spread-over, rest intervals, overtime and night-shift work — the rules that govern employers in Hyderabad. Every value below links to the source it was verified against.
- Governing Act
- Telangana Shops and Establishments Act, 1988 (Act 20 of 1988), as modified for commercial establishments by G.O.Rt.No.282 of 5 July 2025 (gazetted 8 July 2025) and for IT/ITES by G.O.Ms.No.5 of 7 June 2024bombaychamber.com ↗
- Maximum daily hours
- 10 hours for all commercial establishments other than shops (G.O.Rt.No.282, condition (i), issued under s.73(4) exempting them from ss.16–17 from 8 July 2025). The s.16 statutory default that still governs shops is reported as 8 hours but could not be read from the Act textbombaychamber.com ↗
- Maximum weekly hours
- 48 hours (s.16, restated as condition (i) of G.O.Rt.No.282 and of G.O.Ms.No.5/2024); work beyond 48 attracts overtime wagesbombaychamber.com ↗
- Spread-over limit
- 12 hours in any day inclusive of the rest interval, for commercial establishments under G.O.Rt.No.282 condition (iii) (the s.18 statutory text was not read)bombaychamber.com ↗
- Rest interval
- At least 30 minutes, and no work period may exceed 6 hours before it, for commercial establishments under G.O.Rt.No.282 condition (ii) (the s.17 statutory text was not read)bombaychamber.com ↗
- Overtime rate
- Not verified — check your state rules
- Overtime cap
- 144 hours in any quarter of the year for commercial establishments other than shops (G.O.Rt.No.282 condition (iv)). The pre-2025 statutory cap (reported as 6 hours a week under s.16) was not verified from the Actbombaychamber.com ↗
- Weekly off
- One weekly off for every employee — a mandatory condition of the IT/ITES exemption (G.O.Ms.No.5/2024 condition (ii)); the general weekly-holiday section of the Act was not readfoxmandal.in ↗
- Women on night shifts
- s.23 restricts women from work 8:30pm–6am. IT/ITES establishments may roster women and young persons at night under G.O.Ms.No.5/2024 condition (iii), subject to security and to-and-fro transport from residence, plus driver screening, supervisor-set routes, no woman picked up first or dropped last, security guards, random vehicle checks and a control room (conditions (vi)–(xiv)). All other shops and establishments were exempted from s.23 by a 2022 order on similar conditions (written consent, GPS-tracked free transport, rotation, at least five women together)foxmandal.in ↗
- IT/ITES exemption
- G.O.Ms.No.5 (LET&F) of 7 June 2024, under s.73(4): all IT and ITES establishments exempt from ss.15, 16, 21, 23 and 31 for four years from 30 May 2024 (to 29 May 2028), continuing G.O.Ms.No.25 of 25 July 2019. Conditions: 48-hour week with overtime beyond it, weekly off, night-shift transport and security for women, ID cards, compensatory holiday with wages under s.31(2) for work on notified holidays, soft-copy registers accepted, integrated registers/returns per G.O.Ms.No.23 of 24 March 2016; revocable without noticefoxmandal.in ↗
Notes on Telangana
- →The Act text (indiacode.nic.in Act 20 of 1988) returned HTTP 504 during this pass, so statutory defaults (s.16 eight-hour day, s.17 rest, s.18 spread-over, overtime wage rate) are stated only where an exemption order restates them. Overtime rate is left unverified rather than guessed.
- →G.O.Rt.No.282 covers commercial establishments as defined in s.2(5) and expressly excludes shops; retail staff remain on the statutory limits.
- →The 2022 general women-night-shift order is cited from a law-firm summary (G.O.Rt.No.476 of 13 October 2022 per search results); the G.O. itself was not read.
- →Telangana has published draft rules under the Labour Codes; final OSH Code rules were not confirmed as of October 2026 (secondary trackers).
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
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