The Shops and establishment Act lays down provisions regulating of Service Conditions of the Employees working in Shops/Establishments viz. working hours, holidays, leave, Welfare, safety and health measures etc. The Shops and establishment Act is a state subject and it differs from state to state. Every company/firm incorporated/registered shall obtain a license from the respective state labour department with in stipulated period of time and display the same in the shop/establishment.
Employee means a person wholly or principally employed in, and in connection with, any establishment and
includes an apprentice and any clerical or other staff of a factory or industrial establishment who fall outside the scope of the Factories Act, 1948.
Employer means having charge of or owning or having ultimate control over the affairs of an establishment and includes the Manager, agent or other person acting in the general management or control of an establishment.
Establishment means a shop, restaurant, residential hotels, theatre, any place of public amusement or entertainment and incudes a commercial establishment and such other establishment as the Government may declare to be an establishment.
Wages/salary means all remuneration, capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would if terms of the contract of employment were fulfilled but does not include the following:
a) HRA
b) Contribution paid by the employer to any Pension Fund/Provident Fund
c) Travelling allowance
d) Bonus
e) Medical attendance
f) Payment of Gratuity on discharge etc.
Rate of Wages/salaries are fixed by the government based on the “cost of living index number”. This index number is ascertained by the competent authority by notifying in the official gazette for all schedule employment.
Working hours provision of the Act says that no employee is required to or allowed to work for more than 8 hours per day 48 hours per week (6 days). If employee works for more than specified 8 hours the employee shall pay him the overtime wages. Overtime hours shall not be more than 6 hours in a week. Every employee in any establishment shall be allowed in each week a holiday of one whole day
In the recent time there were many amendments related working hours in factories and establishments and central government is planning to increase the working hours from 48 hours to 72 hours per week.
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Employment of women and children: child labour is prohibited to work in any establishment/ shops. Women employees are not allowed to work before 6 A.M and after 8.30 P.M. Companies allowing women to work after 8.30 P.M shall take necessary precautions for their safety. Maternity benefits are provided to all eligible women employees i.e., 26 weeks maternity leave will full wages. 
Leaves: leaves are of different types, earned leaves (EL), sick leaves (SL), causal leaves (CL) and maternity leave. Each state Act provisions grant different number of EL, SL and CL.
Earned leave (EL): Every employee who has served for a period of 240 days or more during a continuous period of 12 months in the establishment, shall be entitled during the subsequent period of 12 months, to leave with wages for period of 15 days, provided that such leave with wages may be accumulated up to a maximum period of 60 days. EL can be enchased up to 8 per year.
Casual Leave (CL) & Sick Leave (SL): Every employee in any establishment shall also be entitled during his first 12 months of continuous service and during every subsequent 12 months of service (a) to leave with wages for a period not exceeding 12 days on the ground of any sickness or accident and (b) to casual leave with wages for a period not exceeding 12 days on any reasonable ground.
Holidays: Each state Act grant different No. of holidays during the year. In Rajasthan grants 7 holidays and in the State of Telangana it is 9 Holidays. Holidays includes National holidays (26th January, 15th August and 2nd October) and Festival holidays (As notified by the Labour Department of the respective state). All these leaves are paid leaves.
Termination of employment:
- No employer shall, without reasonable cause terminate the employee who has been working with the him for not less than 6 months without giving such employee a one-month notice in writing and wages
- If employee works for month than 1 year, a service compensation amounting to 15 days average wages for each year of continues services (Each state has its own rules and regulations pertaining to termination of employment agreement)
- Employer shall furnish the copy of termination letter to the inspector having jurisdiction over area within 3 days of such termination)
- Any employee whose service has been terminated, may appeal to Labour department concern within such time and such manner as prescribed in the Act.
Registers and records: under ease of doing business almost all the states have reduced/compressed the number of registers to be maintained by the employer. Every establishment shall maintain registers as notified by the Labour department of their respective state government. In the state of Telangana under G.O.Ms. No. 23 dt: 24.3.2016 (Labour Department, State of Telangana): 
- Integrated Register – II
- Integrated Register – III
Establishment shall also maintain registers under Various Labour Laws Rules, 2017.
Insurance: Employer should cover all the employees under EISC or any other social security scheme. If company is not registered with ESIC then the provisions of the Employee’s Compensation Act, 1923 (Central Act, 1923) and the Rules thereunder shall attract.
source: https://labour.telangana.gov.in