LawgistThe Factories Act
58Prohibition of overlapping shifts
(1) Work shall not be carried on in any factory by means of system of shifts so arranged that more than one relay of workers is engaged in work of the same kind at the same time.
1[(2) The State Government or subject to the control of the State Government, the Chief Inspector, may, by written order and for the reasons specified therein, exempt on such conditions as may be deemed expedient, any factory or class or description of factories or any department or section of a factory or any category or description of workers therein from the provisions of sub-section (1).]
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1. Subs. by Act 25 of 1954, s. 12, for sub-section (2) (w.e.f. 7-5-1954).
WORKING HOURS OF ADULTS
- 51 Weekly hours
- 52 Weekly holidays
- 53 Compensatory holidays
- 54 Daily hours
- 55 Intervals for rest
- 56 Spread over
- 57 Night shifts
- 58 Prohibition of overlapping shifts
- 59 Extra wages for overtime
- 60 Restriction on double employment
- 61 Notice of periods of work for adults
- 62 Register of adult workers
- 63 Hours of work to correspond with notice under section 61 and register under section 62
- 64 Power to make exempting rules
- 65 Power to make exempting orders
- 66 Further restrictions on employment of women
