Introduction The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 lays down the provisions relating to working hours in establishments. Section-25 under the Code states that no worker shall be required to work for more than eight hours in a day. It also stipulates that the period of work in each day shall be so fixed so as not to exceed such hours, with such intervals and spread overs as may be notified by the…
Introduction The Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions, 2020 subsumes thirteen major central labour enactments. The Factories Act, 1948 is one of the thirteen laws being codified and is currently applicable to factories depending on thresholds set in the corresponding State rule. Factories are generally divided into those operating with the aid of power and those operating without the aid of power, and it is on that basis that the threshold of number…