The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed a Gujarat authorities notification exempting factories from paying extra time wages to employees throughout the lockdown between April 20 and July 19.
A Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud mentioned the pandemic couldn’t be an excuse to deny employees the dignity of their labour. Workers have the best to correct wages and preferrred working circumstances.
The pandemic couldn’t be considered by the federal government as an inner emergency to sideline statutory legal guidelines that protected employees’ rights underneath the Factories Act, it mentioned.
While the court docket acknowledged the monetary hardships confronted by manufacturing unit house owners due to the pandemic, it reminded them that the brunt of the financial slowdown shouldn’t be fully placed on the employees’ shoulders.
The authorities notification allowed manufacturing unit house owners to make their employees slog up to 12 hours a day, 72 hours in per week with a 30-minute break after six hours.
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