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The Factories Act, 1948 (Act No. 63 of 1948), as amended by the Factories (Amendment) Act, ... Working hours of adults; CHAPTER VII.- Employment of young persons;
The Factories Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6.c. 55) was an Act of Parliament passed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Clement Attlee.It was passed with the intention of safeguarding the health of workers.
The regulation of working hours was then extended to women by an Act of 1844. The Factories Act 1847 (known as the Ten Hour Act), together with Acts in 1850 and 1853 remedying defects in the 1847 Act, met a long-standing (and by 1847 well-organised) demand by the millworkers for a ten-hour day.
The Minimum Wages Act 1948 requires companies to pay the minimum wage set by the government alongside limiting working weeks to 40 hours (9 hours a day including an hour of break). Overtime is strongly discouraged with the premium on overtime being 100% of the total wage.
India: 48 hours (as per the Factories Act 1948, a person cannot work for more than 48 hours in a week) Taiwan: 40 hours [3] Israel: 43 hours Italy: 40 hours Netherlands: 35–40 hours [4] Norway: 40 hours [5] (often regulated to 37.5 excl. lunch break) Poland: 40 hours Russia: 40 hours Sweden: 40 hours (not formally defined) [6]
Deaths due to long working hours per 100,000 people ... The Factories Act of 1948. An Act to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories.
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Sections 86 to 116 restricted the working hours of women and young people in factories. Some exceptions were allowed such as for women in management positions (s. 95). All these sections have been repealed, either by: Sex Discrimination Act 1986, which makes restrictions on women's work unlawful; or