'WE demand no more protection than labour as a whole factories Act 1961 of (Conventions) Act 1936. 1. Women cannot work for more than forty-eight hours a 2. Women cannot start work before am or go on working after 8pm (1pm on Saturdays). 3. No work on Sundays, bank holidays, Christmas Day or Good Friday without a week. day in lieu. 4. Women are not allowed to clean machinery if this would expose them to risk of injury. 5. There are also limited regulations preventing women working certain toxic materials, or where they may be exposed dangerous 6. Overtime is limited to six hours a week and one hundred La year. It cannot be worked during HOTe than twenty-live weeks in one calendar year. 7. In factories working a six-day week: (a) Women must net work for more than nine hours a day WILLUUL OverlC (b) They must have a half-hour rest period after four and a half hours of continuous work; or after five hours if they have a ten-minute break at some point during the five-hour stretch. (c) The total actually worked in dav. including overtime, should not be more than ten (five and a half on Saturdays). 8. In wo men factor a basic ere-day factories (a) Women can work for ten hours a day without overtime, or ten and a half hours including overtime (these do not include meal breaks and tea breaks).
woman , ther employed on a sixth day in the week, she can work for only four and a haif hours on that day and it must all be counted as overtime; she may do no other overtime in that week.
9. Night work: are prevented from working nights uniess there is an exemption in force. Women employed solely in cleaning, including night cleaners, are not covered by the laws. 10. Exemptions: iwo million women work in factories. Nearly 200,000 are covered by 'exception 48,000 are specifically exempted for nightwork. (a) Shiftwork: An employer can get permission to emplo! women on a double day shift provided the shifts do not begin before am nor end after 10pm and the shift does not exceed eight hours each day. (b) Specialised processes: Lalinaries. factories bread, flour, sausages, or con. fectionery can make women work a total of 10 hours a day on two days a week other than a Saturday. (c) White collar women workers, eg nurses, are not covered by these rules of work. (d) General exemptions: these can be given by the Health and Safety Executive over a whole industry if it can be proved that it 'will increase the efficiency of industry and transport'. Both sides of industry must be consulted about this order. (e) Special exemption: these individual factories and have to be renewed each year. The workers do not have agree exemption order to be granted by the local factory inspector.