Section 13 of the Act authorises the Government to fix the hours, a day of rest with remuneration and payment for the work done on a day of rest at the overtime rate.
Under rules 20 to 25 of the Minimum Wages (Central) Rules, 1950, the number of hours of work in a day should not exceed nine hours for an adult and hours for a child.
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The working day of an adult worker shall be so arranged that inclusive of the interval of rest it shall not exceed 12 hours on any day.
The number of hours of work for adolescent shall be fixed by the competent medical practitioner as approved by the Government which may either be equal to an adult or child. The child should, however, not be allowed to work for more than 4 hours on any day.
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Extra Wages for Overtime:
The employer can take actual work on any day up to nine hours in a 12 hours shift, but he must pay double the rates for any hour or part of an hour of actual work in excess of nine hours or for more than 48 hours in any week.
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Rest Day:
When a rule made under the Act provides for weekly rest day with wages, the workman must be allowed a day of rest in a week. For working on a weekly rest day, an employee could, however, claim wages at the overtime rates.
This facility is available to the piece-rated worker also but in that case the “average daily wages” would mean only the notified minimum daily wage.