Odisha Cabinet approves Factories (Odisha Amendment) Ordinance, 2025
Odisha Cabinet on Friday approved the proposal of Factories (Odisha Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 along with 14 other proposals.
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Cabinet on Friday approved the proposal of Factories (Odisha Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 along with 14 other proposals.
According to the Labour and ESI Department, in order to attract new investments into the State, to give impetus to industrial development in the State, to create more employment opportunities, the Cabinet in its 27 meeting held on 29.09.2025 has approved the proposals for amendment in the Factories Act, 1948 in its application to the Sate of Odisha.
It is now considered expedient and felt necessary to implement at the proposed amendments in the State by way of an Ordinance. As the State Legislative Assembly is not in session and the circumstances exist which render it necessary for promulgation of an Ordinance under Article 213 of the Constitution of India, the Cabinet has approved the proposal of promulgation of the Factories (Odisha Amendment) Ordinance, 2025. The proposed Ordinance, after its promulgation, shall be replaced by an Act of the State Legislature in due course.
The proposed Factories (Odisha Amendment) Ordinance, 2025, covers the following amendments in the Factories Act, 1948, in its application to the State:-
- The State Government may by notification, extend the daily maximum hours of work up to 10 hours in any day, subject to a maximum of 48 hours in any week in respect of all or group or class of factories on such conditions as it may deem expedient, subject to the written consent of worker for such work, and the remaining days of the said week shall be paid holidays;
- The State Government may by notification, extend the total number of hours of work of a worker without an interval to six hours in respect of all or group or class of factories on such conditions as it may deem expedient;
- The State Government may by notification, increase the spread over up to 12 hours inclusive of intervals for rest, in respect of all or group or class of factories on such conditions as it may deem expedient.
- Subject to the provisions of section 51, 54, 55 and 56, where a worker works in a factory for more than such hours of work in any day or in any week on may be prescribed hy the State Government, he shall, in respect of overtime work, be entitled to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages.
- The State Government may make rules providing for the exemption under section 64 in favour of adult workers subject to the conditions that total number of hours of work in any day shall not exceed twelve, the spread over inclusive of intervals for rest shall not exceed thirteen hours in any day, the total number of hours of work in a week including overtime, shall not exceed sixty.
- Increase in overtime work limit from 115 hours to 144 hours during a period of three months (quarter of a year);
- Women shall be entitled to be employed in all factories for all types of work under this Act and they may also he employed, with their written consent before 6 a.m. and beyond 7 pm subject to such conditions relating to safety or any other condition as may be prescribed by the State Government.
