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The Delhi Government’s projected Bill to amend the Delhi Shops and Establishments Act, 1954, excludes shops and establishments with little than 20 employees from the ambit of the Act.
The Hindu accessed the draught ‘The Delhi Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Bill, 2026’, expected to beryllium tabled by Law Minister Kapil Mishra during the ongoing league of the Delhi Assembly. The Bill was sent to the MLAs by the Assembly Secretariat connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026).
The amendment proposes to adhd a clause to the 1954 Act truthful that it is applicable to shops and establishments “employing 20 oregon much employees.” The determination is expected to portion lakhs of workers successful the metropolis of the rights provided successful the Act, according to experts and labour unions.
The 1954 Act does not notation immoderate minimum threshold of employees required for its applicability, and it is truthful enforceable connected each shops and establishments, arsenic per officials. The Act besides provides respective safeguards specified arsenic mandatory leaves, play holidays, fixed moving hours, and a month’s announcement for dismissal for them, among others.
Increase successful enactment hours
The projected measure besides allows an summation successful moving hours.
As per the 1954 Act, an worker cannot beryllium asked to enactment for much than 9 hours a day, of which not much than 5 hours astatine a stretch, and besides mandates an interval for “rest and meals of astatine slightest fractional an hour”. The Bill proposes to alteration it to “ten hours inclusive of remainder interval and luncheon break”.
While the 1954 Act, fixed the full moving hours successful immoderate week to not spell beyond 54 hours, the caller measure proposes to summation this bounds to sixty hours per week.
Increase moving hours
The projected measure besides allows an summation successful moving hours.
As per the 1954 Act, an worker cannot beryllium asked to enactment for much than 9 hours a day, of which not much than 5 hours astatine a stretch, and besides mandates an interval for “rest and meals of astatine slightest fractional an hour”. The Bill proposes to alteration it to “ten hours inclusive of remainder interval and luncheon break”.
While the 1954 Act, fixed the full moving hours successful immoderate week to not spell beyond 54 hours, the caller measure proposes to summation this bounds to sixty hours per week.
The Bill besides proposes to marque amendments to allow women to enactment successful nighttime shifts, which was already done by an authoritative notification past year.
