The Tamil Nadu Labour Department (“Department”) has permitted all shops and establishments in the State to keep open for 24×7 on all days of the year for a further period of three years, from 5th June, 2025.
In effect, shops and establishments employing 10 or more persons can remain open for 24×7 on all days of the year for further period of 3 years w.e.f. 5th June, 2025 unless it is revoked, subject to the following conditions being fulfilled:
- Every employee must be given one day holiday in a week on rotation basis, and the details of every employee shall be provided in ‘Form S’ added to the Tamil Nadu Shops and Establishments Rules, 1948 and shall be exhibited by the employer in a conspicuous place in the establishments.
- Every employer must exhibit details of the employees who are on holiday/leave, on daily basis, in a conspicuous place in the establishments.
- The wages including overtime wages of the employees must be credited to their savings bank account.
- An employer should not require or allow any person employed to work therein for more than eight hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week and the period of work including over time should not exceed ten and a half hours in any day and fifty seven hours in a week.
- If employees are found working on any holiday or after normal duty hours without proper indent of overtime, penal action will be initiated against the employer/manager as laid down in the Tamil Nadu Shops and Establishments Act, 1947 and the Tamil Nadu Shops and Establishments Rules, 1948
- Women employees should not be required to work beyond 8.00 p.m. on any day in normal circumstances. Provided that the employer after obtaining written consent of the women employees may allow them to work between 8.00 pm and 6.00 am, subject to providing adequate protection of their dignity, honour and safety.
- Transport arrangements should be provided to the women employee who works in shifts. A notice to this effect needs to be exhibited at the main entrance of the establishment indicating the availability of transport.
- The employees should be provided with restroom, washroom, safety lockers and other basic amenities.
- Every employer employing women employees must constitute Internal Complaints Committee against sexual harassment of women under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and the said Committee should be operative.
Please note, that while the notification is dated 8th May 2025, it has been made available in the public domain recently.
Source: Tamil Nadu Labour Department
