Under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, every employer is required to ensure that no worker works for more than a prescribed number of hours in any day, beyond which overtime wages become payable. The maximum number of hours of work in a day, beyond which a worker is entitled to overtime wages at twice the ordinary rate, is:

Section 25 of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 fixes the daily working hours, providing that no worker shall be required or allowed to work in an establishment for more than eight hours in a day. Where a worker works beyond the prescribed daily or weekly limits, Section 29 entitles the worker to overtime wages at twice the ordinary rate of wages. The Code also requires that the total period of overtime work be regulated as prescribed by the appropriate Government. Further, work beyond normal hours can only be undertaken with the worker's consent. These provisions are aimed at protecting workers from excessive working hours while compensating extra work fairly.