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Due to pandemic of COVID-19 Government of India has declared lockdown and also taken other stringent measures to fight against the pandemic resulting occurrence of internal disturbance amounting to public emergency in entire country including State of Uttar Pradesh.
Now, Therefore, in exercise for the powers conferred by Section 5 of the Factories Act,1948.the Government of Uttar Pradesh hereby directs that all the Factories registered under the Factories Act,1948 shall be exempted from various provisions relating to weekly hours, daily hours,overtime,interval of rest etc. of adult workers under section 51,section 54,section 55,section 56 and section 59 with the following conditions from 20th April till 19th July 2020:–
- No adult worker shall be allowed or required to work in a Factory for more than 12 hours in any day and 72 hours in any week.
- The periods of work of adult workers in a factory each day shall be so fixed that no period shall exceed 06 hours and no worker shall work for more than 06 hours before he has had an interval for rest of at least half an hour.
- Wages shall be in proportion of the existing wages (for example if wages for 08 hours are 80 Rupees than proportionate wages for 12 hours will be 120 Rupees).
