Karnataka exempts units from labour laws for 3 months, allows 60-hr week

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The Karnataka government on Friday exempted all factories from labour law provisions on working hours on weekly and daily basis for three months till August 21.

The state government issued a notification allowing factories to extend working hours up to 10 hours a day and 60 hours a week till August 21. The extension of workhours is from the current eight hours a day and 48 hours a week. 

"In exercise of powers conferred under Section 5 of Factories Act, 1948 (Act No.63 of 1948), the Government of Karnataka is pleased to order that all the factories registered under