Applicability: Every establishment engaged in pharmaceutical industry and in other notified industries.

Coverage: Employee drawing

1. Wages not exceeding Rs. 1,600/- per month.

2. Commission not exceeding Rs. 19,200/- per annum.

Persons employed/engaged mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity are not covered under the Act.

Leave :
1 .Earned leave on full wages for not less than one
eleventh of the period spent on duty.

2. Leave on medical certificate on one half of the wages for not less than one-eighteenth of the period of service.

Appointment letter: Every employer is required to furnish to every employee a letter of appointment in the prescribed form.

Applicability of other Acts :
Sales Promotion employees are also covered automatically under the following Acts.

1 .Workmen's Compensation Act.
2. Maternity Benefit Act.
3. Minimum Wages Act.
4. Maternity Benefit Act.
5. Payment of Bonus Act.
6. Payment of Gratuity Act.
7. Industrial Employment (Standing orders) Act.

Registers/Inspection: Every employer is required to maintain prescribed registers/documents which are open to inspection by the notified inspectors who can also at any reasonable time enter the establishment/premises and require production of registers/documents for examination. Inspectors also carry the right of examination of relevant persons and making copies of register/documents.

Penalty: Defaulting employer is liable to a fine upto Rs.100/- on cognizance of offence by Court not interior to that of Metropolitan Magistrate or Magistrate of First Class. Offence can not be taken cognizance of after six months of the date on which the offence is alleged to have been committed.

Rules: These are framed under the Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1976 and provide for details of requirements on Holidays, Leave wages, weekly day of rest, letter of appointment, registers and other documents.