Contents of the Wages Rules (Lakshadweep)

The Code on Wages (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025

Rule 8. Night shifts

Chapter II — Minimum WagesMade under The Code on Wages, 2019F. No. 08/01/2024-LE&T, 15 Jun 2026

Official text

Where an employee in an employment works on a shift which extends beyond midnight, then, -a. a rest day for the whole deform the purposes of rule 7 shall, in this case means a period of twenty- four consecutive hours beginning from the time when his shift ends; and b. the following day in such a case shall be deemed to be the period of twenty-four hours beginning from the time when such shift ends, and the hours after midnight during which such employee was engaged in work shall be counted towards the previous day.

Source: The Code on Wages (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025, F. No. 08/01/2024-LE&T — Lakshadweep Gazette Extraordinary Vol. LXII, No. 20, pp. 6–7 of the PDF. Open our copy at p. 6 · official download · all sources