Narayana Murthy wants to increase the weekly working hours from 48 to 70.

As per the Indian Labour Law, a worker has to work for 8 hours a day which comes to 48 hours per week. As our comrades know, the 8 hour working day has been achieved by the working class only after prolonged struggles, which started in Chicago in the year 1886. Now, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) has demanded that, the working hour per day should be reduced to 7 and there should be only 5 working days per week. It means only 35 working hours per week. The WFTU has raised this demand in its 18th Congress held in Rome in last of May. Under these circumstances, Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys and one of the corporates of India, has demanded that the working hours per week should be increased to 70 hours per week. He has also advised that the Indian worker should not be lazy. By implementing 70 hour work per week, the productivity of our country will increase, said Narayana Murthy. By making the Indian worker to work for 70 hours per week, Narayana Murthy only wants to increase the wealth of the corporates. Already the top 1% Indians are having 40 percent of India’s wealth in their hands. At the same time, most of the regular workers are already converted into contract workers with very meagre wages. Narayana Murthy wants to further increase the exploitation of the workers by increasing the weekly working hours from 48 to 70.