This Actregulates conditions of work and employment in shops, commercial establishments, residential hotels, restaurants, eating houses, theatres, other places of public entertainment and other establishments.

Provisions include Regulation of Establishments, Employment of Children, Young Persons and Women, Leave and Payment of Wages, Health and Safety etc.

Applicability & Coverage

• It applies to all local areas as specified in the Schedule
• Establishment means any establishment to which the Act applies and any other such establishment to which the State Government may extend the provisions of the Act by notification
• Employee means a person wholly or principally employed whether directly or through any agency, whether for wages or other considerations in connection with any establishment
• Member of the family of an employer means, the husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister and is dependent on such employer