administrative staff worked for 9 hours including one hour's
rest interval and two persons for 8 1/2 hours including
half-an-hour ... rest interval. In the headquarters central
auto-workshop, DehraDun, three persons of office staff
worked for 8 1/2 hours, including half an hour
also on the scheme relating to the working hours and rest intervals contained in Ss. 51 to 61 of the Factories ... that since the notice of change of hours of work and rests interval was not given in accordance with S. 9-A , the workmen were
actual duty, and (b) one or
more specified intervals. There may be one interval of rest
or there ... more intervals but whatever their number,
they must be specified. By interval under s. 13 is
obviously meant interval of rest and this is clear
Fourth Schedule
refer to hours of work and rest intervals, leave with wages
and holidays and withdrawal of any customary concession or
privilege or change ... rest
intervals" contemplates intervals during the working hours
in the course of a single day and not the weekly rest days :
it could also
from various provisions relating to weekly hours, daily hours, intervals for rest
etc. for adult workers” under Sections 51 , 54 , 55 and 56 . The stated ... fair remuneration, prescribes working hours, mandatory
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days of rest, intervals between stretches of work and adequate compensation for
overtime. The notifications, putatively
agency had a working day of 9 hours. The rest interval also varied, with 44 of the 50 agencies providing a rest interval of half ... hour whereas 5 of them giving rest interval of one hour and one of the agencies providing no rest interval at all.
5. As regards
weekly day of rest" may not strictly speaking, come within the scope of "rest interval" Some support for this view is found ... Balbhadra Prasad Singh that weekly day of rest is not "rest interval" if will undoubtedlly come within "holidays" referred
persons employed, the employees' wages, hours of work and
rest intervals and could, therefore, be referred only to an
Industrial Court.
The power given ... including the period and mode of payment, hours of work and
rest intervals, which are items (2), (9) and (10) of Sch.
11. Therefore
rest
interval of half-an-hour;
(b) between the hours of 10 P.M. and 6 A.M.
15. Daily intervals for rest ... work for more
than five hours before he has had on interval for rest for at
least half-an-hour;
Provided that the provisions
Section 56 provides that the period of working including rest interval shall not be more than 10 hours on any day.
Clause ... minimum half hour for the rest. Period between two working days cannot be termed as rest interval. The submission of the petitioners that the Circulars
