When corporate capital stresses that an eight-hour working day is insufficient and other sections of society such as politicians applaud the assertion, the matter no longer remains a whimsical statement. It needs to be seen in conjunction with contemporary developments in labour regulation, writes Ravi Kumar.
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THE hundreds of hours of entrapment of 41 workers in a tunnel in Uttarakhand will not be counted as being on work, obviously.
In general, workers already work beyond stipulated hours. Private capital as well as the State anyhow discount the travel time, the work that workers take back home, or the multiple jobs that many of them have to engage in to make ends meet.
When corporate capital stresses that an eight-hour working day is insufficient and other sections of society such as politicians applaud the assertion, the matter is not a simple one. It no longer remains a whimsical statement. It needs to be seen in conjunction with contemporary developments in labour regulation.
A while back, N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder-CEO of Infosys, father-in-law to the current British Prime Minister and one of the doyens of industry in India, had suggested that Indians should work for 60 hours a week to get over the situation created by Covid.
Now he has gone further and suggested that the youth in India should work for 70 hours a week to make it an economically powerful country and earn worldwide respect.
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