Dear Pankaj,
I would advise you to go through the Factories Act,1948 where all your queries can find the answer.The following provisions are important as detailed below:-
Section 51. Weekly hours-No adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in a factory for more than forty-eight hours in any week.
Section 52. Weekly holidays- (1) No adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in a factory on first day of the week (hereinafter referred to as the said day), unless (a) he has or will have a holiday for whole day on one of three days immediately before or after the said day. No substitution shall be made which will result in any worker working for more than ten days consecutively without a holiday for a whole day.
Section 53. Compensatory holidays.(1) Where, as a result of the passing of an order of the making of a rule under the provisions of this Act exempting a factory or the workers therein from the provisions of section 52, a worker is deprived of any of the weekly holidays for which provision is made in sub-section (1) of that section he shall be allowed, within the month in which the holidays were due to him or within the two months immediately following that month, compensatory holidays of equal number to the holidays so lost.
Section 54. Daily hours-Subject to the provisions of section 51, no adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in a factory for more than nine hours in any day.
Section 59. Extra wages for overtime-1) Where a worker works in a factory for more than nine hours in any day or for more than forty-eight hours in any week, he shall, in respect of overtime work, be entitled to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages.
NOTE- Any variation in the above shall only be made only after the previous approval of the Chief Inspector of factories.
BS Kalsi
Member since Aug 2011