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get overtime pay to
physical exhaustion.
amendment,
women and
eight-hour day. As you know, the spirit of the eight-hour
day is to protect the mental and physical well-being of
the employees So that they will not sustain unnecessary
losses because of overtime work. If they work more than
eight hours a day, they will
compensate for their mental and
However, according to the present
young persons can work up to 10 hours a day and the two
hours in excess of the eight hours can be seen as normal
working hours in any one day. Moreover, within these two
extra hours, the employees cannot obtain overtime pay any
more. They will only have normal pay. Thus, they do not
have any gains in fringe benefits by extending their work
day by two hours but their employers will
will have their
marignal cost cut.
marignal
actuality contravening the spirit of the eight-hour day.
The flexibility offers to the industrial undertakings by
the Government therefore
therefore only benefits the employers.
Therefore, the 96-hour fortnight is jelly
i
I
thus have reservations about this amendment. I think that
when introducing such amendments the Administration should
adhere strictly to the eight-hour day spirit.
Now, from the technical point of view, the
employers and employees must
amendment says that the
preach
an
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agreement inkespect of the 96-hour fortnight
before it can be worked out. I do not think this is
technically possible, because in present day situation,
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