The `Four-Day Work Week` Proposal in India: Will it Work?
| Case Code: HROB224 Case Length: 8 Pages Period: 2019-2020 Pub Date: 2021 Teaching Note: Available |
Price: Rs.200 Organization: Indian Ministry of Labor and Employment Industry: Government Countries: India Themes: Human Resource Planning, Employee Benefits, Government Policies, HR Policy |
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Introduction
In February 2021, Apurva Chandra (Chandra) Secretary, Indian Ministry of Labor and Employment, announced that a new ‘Labor Proposal’ with four new ‘Labor Codes’ was under consideration in India that would give employers the flexibility to provide a four-, five-, or six-day work week. Furthermore, Chandra stated that companies were bound to limit the working hours per week to 48 hours and to 12 hours per day. The new ‘Labor Codes’ would be applicable to all establishments and factories.
Issues such as ‘Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions’ were also considered in the new ‘Labor Codes’. A rule for overtime calculation was proposed as well that stated that if an employee’s work hours exceeded the stipulated time by anywhere between 15 and 30 minutes, it should be counted as a full 30 minutes and they had to be compensated accordingly. The overtime pay would be double the normal salary.
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