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The Uttar Pradesh Factories (Amendment) Act has been enforced successful the State aft it got President Droupadi Murmu's assent, paving the mode for accelerated concern growth, enhanced accumulation capacity, and much employment opportunities, the State authorities said connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025).
Under the caller provisions, the State authorities is empowered to widen the maximum regular moving hours successful factories to 12 hours, provided that the full play moving hours bash not transcend 48, it said.
The Act besides allows workers to execute up to six hours of continuous enactment without an interval, taxable to their written consent.
Additionally, successful cases of exceptional workload, the State authorities whitethorn present rise the quarterly bounds of overtime enactment from 75 hours to 144 hours, it stated.
"A cardinal diagnostic of the amendment is the inclusion of a proviso permitting women workers to enactment nighttime shifts, provided they springiness written consent and that each information and wellness measures are afloat observed," the connection said.
"Workers performing duties beyond the prescribed regular bounds volition beryllium entitled to overtime wages astatine treble the mean complaint of pay," it added.
Principal Secretary (Labour) Atul Srivastava said the amendment volition marque Uttar Pradesh much competitory successful concern improvement and fortify the State's advancement towards achieving the extremity of becoming a $1 trillion economy.
