Under section 27 of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, the total number…

Section 27 of the Code entitles a worker to wages at twice the rate of wages for overtime work, that is, work beyond the hours of work in any day or in any week prescribed by the appropriate Government, calculated on a daily basis or weekly basis, whichever is more favourable to the worker. Overtime requires the worker's consent (first proviso), and the second proviso provides that the appropriate Government may prescribe the total number of hours of overtime (formerly section 64(4)(iv) of the Factories Act, 1948, which itself fixed a limit of fifty hours in any quarter for exempted adult workers).

The Code does not itself fix any quarterly figure such as fifty, sixty or forty-eight hours; the limit is left to the appropriate Government, which for a factory is the State Government (Explanation to section 2(1)(d)).