J&K govt to allow women to work in night shift soon
Aman Zutshi
Jammu and Kashmir is amending the law to allow women to work in night shifts in shops and commercial establishments across the Union territory. The govt in J&K led by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday has decided to introduce an amendment to the J&K Shops and Commercial Establishments 1966 Act.
The historic amendment will allow women folk to work at night in various kinds of commercial establishment in J-K.
The J&K Shops and Commercial Establishments 1966 Act is a law which provides for the regulation of the Conditions of work and employment in shops, commercial establishment, residential hotels, restaurants, eating house, theatres, other places of public amusements or entertainments and other establishments in Jammu-Kashmir.
The employers of the women in the night shift will have to ensure their safety and security, including transportation to their homes and there must be three women present in the respective place of work during the night shift.
If a woman have a child then the employer have been asked in the amendment to make a separate room for the kid to stay during the night shift.
