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The Puducherry authorities has extended the moving hours of women successful factories and industries up to 10 p.m. successful the Union Territory (UT).
Commissioner and Secretary, Labour, R. Smitha, successful a property note, said a notification extending the moving hours of women during nighttime shifts was issued past month. Prior to issuing the notification, women were allowed to enactment successful factories during nighttime hours lone till 7 p.m., the enactment said.
The hold of moving hours has fixed much flexibility related to employability of women during nighttime shifts successful factories and industries. The determination was taken with the purpose to beforehand adjacent opportunity, sex equality, and alteration inclusive economical information of women, portion maintaining their information and payment astatine the workplaces, she said.
“The authorities is committed towards taking steps aimed astatine empowering women employees by facilitating their information successful the workforce done extended and flexible moving hours and further easing different specified restrictive presumption and conditions related to employment successful general,“ she said.
