SPREAD OVER TIME
- November 21, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject : Legislation
Context : The Labour Ministry has proposed raising ‘spread over time’ for a worker to 12 hours a day from the current limit of 10-and-half hours.
Concept :
- This is part of the draft rules for the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code.
- ‘Spread over time’ refers to working hours plus the time for lunch and other breaks.
- No worker shall be required, or allowed, to work in an establishment for more than 48 hours in a week, the draft rules state.
- The period of work shall be so arranged that, inclusive of the intervals for rest, it shall not spread over for more than 12 hours in a day.
- The government has kept weekly working hour consistent with the ILO convention. However, by increasing the ‘spread over time’, it has given employers the leeway to keep worker in for longer hours.
Single licence
- To formalise the contract labour system, the draft rules spell out the conditions for a contractor to get a licence.
- It states that the contractor, as an entity or as an individual, should not be an un-discharged insolvent or convicted any time during the last two years of any criminal offence liable for more than three months of imprisonment.
- There will also be provision for single licence for a contractor to work in more than one State.