WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Working Hours & Day Offs Employees who choose to switch to a 4-day work week, will have to work for 12 hours for those four days-instead of the regular 8-9 hours followed by most offices currently. According to the government, the 48-hour weekly work requirement has to be met.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to Minimum Wages Act, the working day of an adult worker shall be so arranged that inclusive of the interval of rest it shall not exceed 12 hours on any day.

Detailed explanation-3: -(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.

Detailed explanation-4: -India’s legalised 8 hour working day came with the 1946 Amendment to the Factories Act of 1934 – a result of the Bill introduced by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar as Labour Member in the Viceroy’s Executive Council.