The Labour and Employment department of Gujarat on 20th July 2020 has extended its earlier order exempting all factories registered under the Factories Act, 1948 from various provisions relating to weekly hours, daily hours, intervals for rest of all adult workers from 20 July till 19th October 2020.
The period of work of adult workers in a factory each day shall be so fixed that no period shall exceed six hours and that no worker shall work for more than 6 hours before he has had an interval of rest of atleast half an hour.
Further, women workers are not allowed to work between 7.PM to 6.AM, and the wages shall be in proportion of the existing wages.
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