{"id":188,"date":"2006-11-27T16:10:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T16:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php\/2006\/11\/27\/amendments-in-factories-act-1948\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T16:10:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T16:10:44","slug":"amendments-in-factories-act-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Amendments in Factories Act, 1948"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government has cleared the proposal to make suitable amendments in the factories Act, 1948 allowing flexibility for women to work in night shifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It provides for protection clauses like provision of adequate safeguards in the factory as regards occupational safety and health, equal opportunity for women workers, adequate protection to their dignity, honour and safety, their transportation from the factory premises to the nearest point of their residence. The bill in this regard was introduced in Lok Sabha on August 16, 2005 and is pending to be taken up for discussions and passing. As far as provisions of lighting and creche are concerned, these are already covered under the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948.<br \/>\nThis was stated by the Minister of State(Independent Charge) of Ministry of Labour and Employment, Shri Oscar Fernandes in written reply in the Lok Sabha today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}