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The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday(September 4, 2025 )offered its approval to modify laws that will permit increasing the optimum everyday working hours for economic sector staff members from today 9 to 10 hours.
The relocation is targeted at bring in financial investments, creating work and securing employees’ rights, a main declaration stated.
The State cabinet, throughout its conference commanded by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, cleared the modifications advised by a main job force, bringing Maharashtra in line with states like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura, which have actually currently carried out comparable reforms.
The modifications will be done to the Factories Act, 1948 and the Maharashtra Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2017, it stated.
Guarantee appropriate overtime payment
The changes will permit markets to work without disturbance throughout peak need or labour scarcities while guaranteeing that employees get correct overtime settlement.
With this, the limitation of day-to-day working hours in markets will increase from 9 to 12 hours, while rest breaks will be permitted after 6 hours rather of 5. The legal overtime cap will increase from 115 to 144 hours per quarter, with compulsory composed approval from employees. Weekly work hours will likewise be extended from 10.5 hours to 12 hours, it stated.
Under the modified Shops and Establishments Act, day-to-day working hours will be raised from 9 to 10, overtime limitations from 125 to 144 hours, and emergency situation task hours will be extended to 12. The modifications will use to the facilities having 20 or more employees.
Facilities utilizing less than 20 employees will no longer require registration certificates however need to inform authorities through a basic intimation procedure.
According to the federal government, the relocation is anticipated to help with ease of operating, bring in brand-new financial investment, promote task production, and all at once make sure wage security and enhanced rights for employees, consisting of double spend for overtime.
The state labour department provided the proposition to the cabinet recently. The department has actually argued that the proposed modifications would supply a more comfy workplace, especially for ladies, and resolve the enduring issues of staff members and companies alike.