No overtime and long working hours in a factory

It is true that such employers and such situations exist. The employee has to be smart, and should certainly voice his concerns in a gentle manner. The situation shall continue to exist, till employee is under fear of vindictive action by employer. Someone shall have to bell the cat.

Company can not declare anyone a workman or an executive as per its inner wishes or convenience. The labor laws shall decide who is workman and who is not.

Your concern is exhaustive work environment and minimum 12 hours/day duty i.e. 72 hours/week.

If the work environment is hazardous to health, and the employee is being forced to long hours at work, the employee can lodge complaint and grievance.

Employee should give a gentle representation to management and if it does fetch any favorable response, should lodge a complaint to labor authorities.

Can any body tell me about sections that substentiate the argument?

5*[(s) "workman" means any person (including an apprentice)

employed in any industry to do any manual, unskilled, skilled,

technical, operational, clerical or supervisory work for hire or

reward, whether the terms of employment be express or implied, and for

the purposes of any proceeding under this Act in relation to an

industrial dispute, includes any such person who has been dismissed,

discharged or retrenched in connection with, or as a consequence of,

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that dispute, or whose dismissal, dischasrge or retrenchment has led

to that dispute, but does not include any such person-

that dispute, or whose dismissal, dischasrge or retrenchment has led

to that dispute, but does not include any such person--

(iii) who is employed mainly in a managerial or

administrative capacity; or

(iv) who, being employed in a supervisory capacity, draws

wages exceeding one thousand six hundred rupees per

mensem or exercises, either by the nature of the duties

attached to the office or by reason of the powers

vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial

nature.

Please explain me this. As according to this all thsoe who are earning wages more than 1600 are not worker??? As this point is taken by my company.