Law on overtime still gives employer the upper hand

Overtime in India doesn’t by and large conform to the worldview of N R Narayana Murthy, the redoubtable Infosys co-founder. To be sure, the points made by him in his famous 2007 e-mail to his staff pulling them up in dulcet terms for doing overtime with an eye on creature comforts -- free Internet surfing, snacks and drop-home -- might have had resonance in Infosys, but in factories and other sweatshops across India,
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