Denying Overtime Wages Affront to Worker’s Right to Life: SC

  • The Supreme Court recently struck downGujarat government’s decision to exempt industries from paying overtime wages and increasing the working hours of employees by citing the public emergency and economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown.
  • The court also invoked its powers under Article 142 to do complete justice and directed that all workmen who had worked overtime be paid overtime wages at double the ordinary rate of wages as provided under Section 59 of the Factories Act.

Background of the Case

  • The labour and employment department of Gujarat had issued a notification on April 17 under Section ....
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