Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments Act

The Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2017 and Rules are applicable to all the shops and commercial establishments in the whole of Chhattisgarh.

The Act is enacted for the purpose of protecting the rights of employees. The Act provides regulations of the payment of wages, terms of services, work hours, rest intervals, overtime work, opening and closing hours, closed days, holidays, leaves, maternity leave and benefits, work conditions, rules for employment of children, records maintenance, etc.

Definitions

Establishment means any premises, not being the premises of a factory or a shop,-

• wherein any trade, business, manufacture, or any work in connection with, or incidental or anc illary thereto, or any journalistic or printing work or bu:,iness of banking, insurance, stocks and shares, brokerage or produce exchange, is carried on; or
• which is used as theater, cinema or for any other public amusement or entertainment, to whom the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 does not apply.

Shop means any premises where goods are sold, either by retail or wholesale or where services are rencered to customers and includes an office, a store-room, go-down, warehouse or workhouse or work place for distribution or packing or repacking of finished goods is carried on but does not include a shop attached to a factory where persons employed in such shop are allowed the benefits provided under the Factories Act,1948;

Registration

On the commencement of this Act, every shop and establishment, employing ten or more workers, sha ll apply for registration within a period of six months from the date of such commencement or the date on which such shop or establishment comes into existence and obtain a Labour Identification Number.

Every shop and establishment, employing ten or more workers, shall make an application for registration to such authority and in such form and manner as may be prescribed.

The authority shall, on receipt of an application, register the shop or establishment and issue a Labour Identification Number in such form as may be prescribed.

Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, the shops and establishments registered under the provisions of the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 or the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 or any rules, regulations or schemes made thereuncier shall be deemed to be registered for the purposes of this Act: Provided that such shops and establishments shall, within a period of six months from the commencement of this Act, obtain a Labour Identifi cation Number in such manner as may be prescribed.

Compliances

As per The Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments Act and Rules

Useful Links / References

• The Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2017
• Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments Registration and Renewal
• Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments Notification, 2019
• Chhattisgarh Labour Department