What is the overtime rate of wages under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code,…

Under section 27(1) of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (formerly section 59 of the Factories Act, 1948), a worker who works for more than the permitted hours in any day or week is entitled, in respect of overtime work, to wages at twice his rate of wages. The rate is fixed by the Code itself and is not left to the appropriate Government.