Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955
6.Hours of work. -
(l)Subject to any rules that may be made under
this Act, no working journalist shall be required or allowed to work in any newspaper
establishment for more than one hundred and forty-four hour during any period
of four consecutive weeks, exclusive of the time for meals.
(2)Every working journalist shall be allowed
during any period of seven consecutive days rest for a period of not less than
twenty-four consecutive hours, the period between 10 p.m. and 6 p.m. being
included therein.
Explanation. -For the purposes of
this section, week" means a period seven days beginning at midnight on
Saturday.