Bill on employing females on night shifts in selected fields gazetted

The amendments to the Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) Act has been gazetted specifying conditions to employ females on night shifts has been published.

The  amendments is to employ before 6.00 a.m or after 6.00 p.m any female employee who has attained the age of eighteen in any institution which is engaged in business, based on information technology and knowledge process outsourcing or business process outsourcing or engaged in administration of accounts or related work in a Back Office for an institute situated abroad.

The amendments to section 66 of the principal enactment to enable the Minister to make regulations specifying the terms and conditions relating to welfare of such females including their security, transport facilities and facilities to rest to be followed by an employer who employs such female after 10.00 p.m. and before 6.00 a.m.

Amendments to  principal enactment to expand the definition of the expression “office”  also has been introduced.

It has been proposed that the Act may be cited as the Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) (Amendment) Act, No. of 2023.