Maharashtra Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025

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 Maharashtra Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025



Here’s a simplified summary of the key amendments 

📌 Main Amendments

  1. Threshold for Registration

    • Earlier: Establishments with 10 or more employees required registration.

    • Now: Increased to 20 or more employees.

    • Establishments with less than 20 employees only need to give intimation of their business, not full registration.

  1. Daily Working Hours

    • Earlier: 9 hours per day (including rest interval).

    • Now: Increased to 10 hours per day, subject to 48 hours per week limit.

  1. Rest Interval

    • Earlier: Maximum continuous working without rest = 5 hours.

    • Now: Increased to 6 hours.




  1. Spread-over in Establishments

    • Earlier: 10.5 hours in a day (including rest).

    • Now: 12 hours in a day.

  1. Overtime Limit (Quarterly)

    • Earlier: Maximum 125 hours per quarter.

    • Now: Increased to 144 hours per quarter.

    • Overtime remains not mandatory for workers and must be compensated.

  1. Section Substitutions & Wording Changes

    • Words “ten” replaced by “twenty” in several provisions (Sections 1, 6, 7).

    • Section 12: Adjustments in daily hours, rest hours, and deletion of redundant provisions.

    • Section 14: New wording → “The spread-over of a worker in the establishment shall not exceed twelve hours in any day.”

    • Section 15: “125 hours” overtime → “144 hours” overtime.

📌 Objectives (from the Statement)

  • Ease of Doing Business & Ease of Living: Reduce compliance burden, especially for small businesses.

  • Flexibility in Working Hours: Without changing the weekly cap (48 hrs).

  • Support to Industry: Handle peak demand, emergencies, skill shortages.

  • Worker Protection: Ensure overtime is properly recorded, compensated, preventing exploitation.

  • Economic Growth: Encourage job creation and business expansion.

📌 Ordinance Authority

  • Issued by Governor of Maharashtra (Acharya Devvrat) on 28th September 2025, under Article 213 of the Constitution (since Assembly was not in session).

👉 This essentially means small shops (less than 20 workers) get compliance relief, while bigger shops get more working hour flexibility (with slightly higher spread-over and overtime).






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