Gazette Notifications

Rajasthan

Exemption For Employment Of Women During Night Shift In Rajasthan

Government of Rajasthan published notification to exempt Section 22 (Employment of women and Prohibition of employment during night) of The Rajasthan Shops and Establishment Act, 1958 for three years from the date of publication of notification subject to condition that (1) Only after obtaining the consent of the woman employee, the employer will be given permission to employe women workers at night (2) The employer shall issue an appointment letter, and photo along with an identity card to all women employees (3) In case of women employee working at night the employer shall be responsible for their full safety and he shall provide safe transportation facilities from home to workplace and vice versa to them at night (4) A separate restroom locker for keeping their belonging shall be provided to the women employee at their workplace, (5) No pregnant women shall be called for work at night from a period of three months prior to her expected delivery date till and three months after the delivery of the child, (6) The employer will ensure proper arrangements for the prohibition of acts and incidents of potential sexual harassments, (7) If any shop or commercial establishment violates any of the above terms then the relief granted shall terminate automatically and consequently, the employer shall be held liable under the acts and other laws according to the procedure established, (8) The shops or establishments in which the employer herself is a women and which is also operated by woman and which has only women employees then for those organizations the period of relief the shall be for four years