The Factories (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2020

The Government of Punjab vide notification No. 22-Leg./2020 dated 9th November 2020 has repealed The Factories (Punjab Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 with ordinary legislation to be known as the Factories (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2020. As per the notification, the government has increased the threshold limit for applicability to the Factories Act, 1948 from ten or more workers to twenty or more workers for factories operating with the aid of power and from twenty or more workers to forty or more workers for factories operating without the aid of power. The notification also amends the number of hours allowed to work overtime in any quarter from seventy-five hours to one hundred and fifteen hours. Please refer to the notification for more details

The Factories (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2020