Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 · Chapter VII: Hours of Work and Annual Leave With Wages
Section 29: Prohibition of overlapping shifts
(1) The work shall not be carried on in any establishment by means of a system of shifts so arranged that more than one relay of workers is engaged in work of the same kind at the same time.
(2) The appropriate Government or subject to the approval of the appropriate Government, the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator, may, by written order and for the reasons specified therein, exempt on such conditions as may be deemed expedient, any establishment or class of establishments or any department or section of an establishment or any category or description of workers therein from the provisions of sub-section (1):
Provided that the provisions of this sub-section shall not apply to mines.
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