Working Hoursकामको समय
Nepal's Labour Act 2074 sets working hours at eight a day and forty-eight a week, with at least one day of rest each week. Time worked beyond that is overtime and carries the higher rate.
Also called: work hours Nepal, 48 hour week Nepal, office hours Nepal
Key facts
- Daily
- 8 hoursExcluding the rest interval.
- Weekly
- 48 hoursAcross six working days.
- Weekly rest
- At least one dayPer the Labour Act 2074.
- Beyond that
- OvertimeAt one and a half times basic.
The standard and the exceptions
Eight hours a day and forty-eight a week is the standard, with at least one rest day in each week. Shift operations and continuous processes are organised around the same weekly total rather than being exempt from it.
Anything beyond the standard is overtime, which is capped and paid at a higher rate, so the boundary is not a formality.
Why the boundary needs to be recorded, not assumed
In practice most disputes about overtime are disputes about what time somebody actually started and finished. If attendance is a signature in a register, the boundary is whatever the two parties remember. If it is a timestamped punch, it is a fact.
That is the real argument for recording attendance properly: not surveillance, but having an answer that does not depend on anyone's memory.
Working Hours, answered
Eight hours a day and forty-eight hours a week under the Labour Act 2074, with at least one day of rest each week.
Yes, provided the total stays within forty-eight hours and the employee gets at least one rest day each week.
- Labour Act 2074, provisions on working hours and the weekly day of rest.
This page explains general practice in Nepal. It is not legal or tax advice, and statutory figures are revised from time to time. Check the current Act, rule or notice before acting on it.
Related terms
- Overtimeअतिरिक्त समयOvertime is time worked beyond the standard eight-hour day or forty-eight-hour week. Under Nepal's Labour Act 2074 it is paid at one and a half times basic remuneration and is capped at four hours a day and twenty-four hours a week.
- Shift Rosterपालो तालिकाA shift roster is the published schedule of who works which shift on which day. It is what attendance is measured against: without a roster, a punch at 14:00 cannot be classified as on time or late.
- Labour Act 2074श्रम ऐन २०७४The Labour Act 2074 is Nepal's principal employment statute, in force since 2074 BS (2017 AD) and applied together with the Labour Rules 2075. It sets employment types, working hours, overtime, leave entitlements, probation and notice, and the funded gratuity and social security model.
- Biometric Attendanceबायोमेट्रिक हाजिरीBiometric attendance records a punch using a physical identifier such as a fingerprint or a face, on a device at the workplace. Because the identifier cannot be handed to a colleague, it removes buddy punching, which is the main weakness of card and register systems.
- Public Holidaysसार्वजनिक बिदाPublic holidays are the days off an employer must grant in addition to the weekly rest day. The Labour Act 2074 sets thirteen days a year, with one additional day for female employees, and the specific dates follow the government's annual calendar.
- GPS AttendanceGPS attendance records a check-in from an employee's phone along with their location, usually constrained to a defined area. It covers field staff, site engineers and branch teams who are nowhere near a biometric device.
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