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New labour codes to allow four-day work week
Why is it in news?
- According to an official statement, the new labour codes set to be implemented soon and would provide companies the flexibility of reducing the number of working days.
Details:
- Companies can reduce the number of working days to four days a week.
- It would also provide free medical check-ups to workers through the Employees State Insurance Corporation.
- There were concerns about the working hours going up from 10.5 hours to 12 hours.
- Under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 draft rules, the limit of working hours for a week was 48 hours.