{"id":14726,"date":"2016-08-18T11:42:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T11:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=14726"},"modified":"2016-08-18T11:54:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T11:54:44","slug":"factories-amendment-bill-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/factories-amendment-bill-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently the Lok Sabha on passed the Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2016 that seeks to increase the working overtime hours per quarter up to-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a)115 Hours<br \/>\n(b)150 Hours<br \/>\n(c)100 Hours<br \/>\n(d)50 Hours<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 10 August 2016; the Lok Sabha passed the Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2016.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bill amends the Factories Act, 1948. The Act regulates the safety, health and welfare of factory workers. The Bill amends provisions related to overtime hours of work.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Act permits the state government to prescribe rules on a range of matters, including double employment, details of adult workers to be included in the factory\u2019s register, conditions related to exemptions to certain workers, etc.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bill gives such rule making powers to the central government as well.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the Act, the state government may make rules to-<br \/>\n(i)define persons who hold management or confidential positions; and<br \/>\n(ii)Exempt certain types of adult workers (e.g. those engaged for urgent repairs) from fixed working hours, periods of rest, etc.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bill gives such rule making powers to both, the central and state governments.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the Act, such rules will not apply for more than five years.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bill modifies this provision to state that the five-year limitation will not apply to rules made after the enactment of this Bill.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Act permits the state government to make rules related to the regulation of overtime hours of work.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the total number of hours of overtime must not exceed 50 hours for a quarter.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bill raises this limit to 100 hours. Rules in this regard may be prescribed by the central government as well.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bill introduces a provision which permits the central or state government to extend the 115-hour limit to 125 hours.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It may do so because of (i) excessive work load in the factory and (ii) public interest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/the-factories-amendment-bill-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/the-factories-amendment-bill-2016\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=148706\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=148706<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-ians\/lok-sabha-passes-factories-amendment-bill-2016-116081001776_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-ians\/lok-sabha-passes-factories-amendment-bill-2016-116081001776_1.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prsindia.org\/billtrack\/the-factories-amendment-bill-2016-4368\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.prsindia.org\/billtrack\/the-factories-amendment-bill-2016-4368\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently the Lok Sabha on passed the Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2016 that seeks to increase the working overtime hours per quarter up to- (a)115 Hours (b)150 Hours (c)100 Hours (d)50 Hours Ans: (c) Related facts: On 10 August 2016; the Lok Sabha passed the Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2016. The Bill amends the Factories Act, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-14726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}