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The Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma authorities has approved an ordinance prohibiting employment of children beneath 14 years of property successful commercialized establishments, the connection said connected Monday (October 27, 2025).
The State besides approved amendments to the Rajasthan Factories (Amendment) Rules, 2025, aimed astatine promoting concern activities portion ensuring the payment and information of workers, according to a statement.
Under the Rajasthan Shops and Commercial Establishments (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025, the minimum property for apprentices has been raised from 12 to 14, and adolescents aged 14 to 18 volition nary longer beryllium permitted to enactment during nighttime hours — a alteration from the earlier bounds of 12 to 15 years.
Officials said the amendment would assistance guarantee amended entree to health, nutrition, and acquisition for children.
The ordinance besides increases the maximum regular moving hours for workers from 9 to 10 hours, portion the overtime bounds has been raised to 144 hours per quarter.
According to the government, the determination volition amended operational ratio and productivity successful shops and commercialized establishments.
The amendments to the Rajasthan Factories Rules let the employment of women successful circumstantial types of factories, with peculiar provisions for safety, privacy, and protective equipment.
Under the caller rules, employers indispensable guarantee idiosyncratic information cogwheel specified arsenic respiratory protection, look shields, masks, gloves, and vigor shields, support aerial quality, and supply mandatory information grooming to each workers, the connection said.
