This document summarizes labor laws regarding working hours and leave for factories. It outlines maximum weekly and daily hours for adult workers, required intervals for rest, and rules for overtime pay and night shifts. It also discusses limitations for young workers including restricted hours, no night work, and entitlement to holidays. Finally, it details various types of earned, non-earned, casual and maternity/paternity leave allotted and rules for wages during leave periods.
3. WEEKLY HOURS
According to [Sec51] : No adult worker shall be required or allowed to
work in a factory for more than 48 hours in any week.
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4. DAILY HOURS
According to [Sec 54] no adult worker shall be required or allowed
to work in a factory for more than 9 hours on any day.
5. INTERVAL FOR REST
According to [Sec 55]
• Period of work of adult workers in a factory each day shall be so fixed that no
period shall exceed 5 hours .
No work before workers had an
interval for rest of at least half an hour
6. SPREAD OVER
The period of work of an adult worker in a factory shall be so arranged that
inclusive of his intervals for rest under section 55 they shall not be spread over
for more than 101/2 in any day.
NIGHT SHIFT
According to [sec57]
For the purposes of weekly or compensatory holidays as holidays for a whole
day shall mean in his case a period of 24 hours beginning when his shift ends.
7. OVERLAPPING SHIFTS
• Work shall not be carried on in any factory by means of a system of shifts so
arranged that more than one relay of workers is engaged in work of the same
kind at the same time.
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8. WAGES FOR OVERTIME
• Where a worker work in a factory for more than 9 hours in any day or for more
than 48 hours in any week , he shall , in respect of overtime work, be entitled
wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages.
• Where the workers in a factory are paid on a piece rate basis the time rate shall
be deemed to be equivalent to the daily average of their full-time earnings for
the days on which they actually worked on the same or identical job during the
month immediately preceding the calendar month .
9. DOUBLE EMPLOYMENT
No adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in any factory
on any day on which he had already been working in any other
factory.
11. Section 71,72 deals with working hours for young person:
Working Hours limited to 4-1/2
Not during nights
Period of work limited to 2 shifts
Entitled to weekly holidays.
Female to work only between 6 A.M. to 7 P.M.
Fixation of periods of work beforehand.
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13. CHILD
• 1 day for every 15 days of work
performed by him during the
previous calendar year.
ADULT
1 day for every 20 days of work
performed by him during the
previous calendar year.