The shop establishment act sets rules for working hours per day and week, guidelines for spread-over, rest interval, opening, and closing hours, national and religious holidays, closed days, rules for employment of children, overtime work, young persons, and women, rules for maternity leave, annual leave, sickness and casual leave, rules for employment and termination of service maintenance of registers and records. Besides, display of notices and obligations of employers as well as employees are also mentioned.

Every business has to seek approval from the Department of Labour and keep up-to-date registers regarding details of employment, fines, deductions and advances, salary and holidays under the shop establishment act. Maybe the requirements vary from state to state but files related to annual holidays and number of employees need to be submitted to the office of the Municipal Corporation annually.

All shop and establishment need to register itself compulsorily under this act within 30 days of commencement of work. Many other licenses require this as proof of a commercial business as this is such a basic license. Mostly, the banks require you to furnish it if you want to open a current account. So, to get shop establishment license, you would need to provide the PAN card of the business owner or the business itself, a copy of the rental agreement or sale deed, and details of all the employees.

Yes it is mandatory. Any establishment which is falling within the area notified under the government Act, registration is mandatory for each and every shops/establishment & any contractor engaging with contract Workers is required to get license.

Yes, it is possible to register more than one year. As per the selection of years and contractors government fee should be changed.

Yes, every registration is required to submit one month prior the date of renewal.

Yes. If you are an owner of a business or have set up a shop in India, you have to adhere to the norms that come under the Shops and Establishment Act and reserve for a license be it in any part of the country. The same can be done via shop act registration online and the registration certificate can be procured which is processed online completely. The shop license must be applied and reserved within the first 30 days of opening your foundation or firm.