Regular wage earners or salaried employees worked the longest hours in India, shows data from the government’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS). Their hours are longer than people who are self-employed or do casual labour (chart 2).
It is surprising but Indians want to work for even longer hours. The ILO report shows only 4.4 per cent Indians feel over-employed. Over-employment is defined as working longer hours than employees would like and under-employment is the opposite. Around 47.1 per cent of workers would like to work longer hours (chart 3).
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