This document summarizes labor laws regarding working hours and leave for factories. It outlines that adult workers cannot work more than 48 hours per week or 9 hours per day, with at least a 30 minute break if work periods exceed 5 hours. Night shifts are considered a 24 hour period from end of shift. Overtime pay is required for hours worked over these amounts. Young workers have more restrictive limits and protections. The document also outlines various types of earned and non-earned leave that workers are entitled to, such as casual leave, maternity leave, sick leave and paternity leave.

2. According to [Sec 2(a)]

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.
overlapping

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.

10. [Sec. 2(c)] [Sec 2(b)]
CHILD ADOLESCENT

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.

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.

14. LEAVES
EARNED
LEAVES
NON EARNED
LEAVES
CASUAL
LEAVE
12 DAYS
MATERNITY
LEAVE
6 MONTHS
SICK LEAVE
6-12
MONTHS
PATERNITY
LEAVES
PAID LEAVE
RL 2 DAYS

15. Wages during
leave period
Payment in
advance in
certain cases
Mode of
recovery of
unpaid wages
Power to make
rules
Power to
exempt factories