Comparison of shop and

establishment act and factories act

Prepared By:
Bhavsar Jigisha
Roll no :06
 Difference between acts…
Factories act Shop and establishment act

Itgoverns a working Here objective is to

condition of workmen regulate conditions of
in Factories. work and employment
in shops, commercial
establishments,
residential hotels,
restaurants, eating
houses, theatres, other
places of public
entertainment and other
establishments.
 Factory means whereon
ten or more workers are
working, or were working
on any day of the
preceding twelve months,
and in any part of which a
manufacturing process is
being carried on with the
aid of power, or is
ordinarily so carried on,
or Whereon twenty or
more workers are
working without the aid
of power, or is ordinarily
so carried on.
 "Establishment" means a
shop, commercial
establishment, residential
hotel, restaurant, eating
house, theatre, or other
place of public amusement
or entertainment to which
this Act applies and
includes such other
establishment as the State
Government may, by
notification in the Official
Gazette, declare to be an
establishment for the
purposes of this Act
 "Worker"  "Employee" means a person
means a
person employed, directly wholly or principally
or by or through any agency employed, whether directly
(including a contractor) or through any agency, and
with or without the whether for wages or other
knowledge of the principal consideration in or in
employer, whether for connection with any
remuneration or not, in any establishment; and includes
manufacturing process, or an apprentice, but does not
in cleaning any part of the include a member of the
machinery or premises used employer's family
for a manufacturing
process, or in any other kind
of work incidental to, or
connected with, the
manufacturing process, or
the subject of the
manufacturing process
 "employer" means the
occupier of a factory
means the person who owner of any
has ultimate control establishment about the
over the affairs of the business of which
factory persons are employed,
and where the business
of such establishment is
not directly managed by
the owner, means the
manager, agent or
representative of such
owner in the said
business
 Spread of work  spread-over of an employee
Inclusive of rest intervals in a shop shall not exceed
they shall not spread over eleven hours in any day:
more than ten and a half
hours in any day.
 Adequate facilities for
 No such facility is mention
wholesome drinking water
shall be made at convenient under this act
places in the factory , All
such points shall be legibly
marked "drinking water” .
no such point shall be
situated within six meters of
any washing place, urinal,
latrine, spittoon, open drain
carrying silages or effluent
or any other source of
contamination
Annual leave with Annual leave with
wages: one day for wages: one day for
every 20 days every 60 days
No child shall be No child shall be
employed or permitted required or allowed to
to work in any factory- work whether as an
(a)For more than four and employer or otherwise
a half hours in any day in any establishment,
(b)During the night. notwithstanding that
such child is a member
of the family of the
employer.
Similarities
No employee shall be required or allowed to
work for more than nine hours in any day and
forty-eight hours in any week
Intervals for rest at least ½ hour on working for
5 hours
every employee who has worked for not less
than two hundred and forty days during a year
irrespective of the date of commencement of his
service, shall be allowed leave