- Tamil Nadu Government announced that the State’s recent controversial Bill amending the Factories Act, 1948, to enable extended working hours in factories has been withdrawn.
About the Bill:
- The bill providing flexible working hours for employees.
- Including the option for employers to increase the per day working hours of their staff to 12 hours from the current eight hours per day schedule, in factories across the state.
- The bill amended the Factories Act, 1948 by introducing a new section (section 65A) which enables the state government to exempt any factory from restrictions relating to weekly hours, holidays, daily working hours, intervals of rest, spread over and prohibition of overlapping shifts.
