<ul><li>Indian labor laws specify that the maximum working hours for a week should not exceed 48 hours or nine hours a day for a single employee, with a rest interval of half an hour after every five hours of work.</li><li>The law does not permit overlapping shifts or a seven-day workweek, which means there should be at least one weekly day off for employees.</li><li>If an employee works for more than nine hours a day or 48 hours a week, they are entitled to overtime pay, which is mandated by labor laws.</li><li>The labor laws do not allow a workweek of over 60 hours, even when including overtime, making a 70-hour workweek proposed by Narayana Murthy legally untenable.</li></ul>

What Indian labour laws say about Narayana Murthy's 70 hours work-week suggestion

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