Rule 27. Extra wages for overtime under Section 27

(1) Where in an establishment,

a) a worker works for more than eight hours in any day as daily wager or,

b) a worker, other than daily wager, for more than forty-eight hours in a week, as the case may be,

Worker shall in respect of such over-time work be entitled to wages at the rate of twice his rate of wages and shall be paid at the end of each wage period.

(2) In calculating over time on any day, a fraction of an hour between 15 to 30 minutes shall be counted as 30 minutes, and in case of more than 30 minutes, it shall be rounded and shall be counted as an hour on an actual basis.

(3) In calculating the wages or earnings in the case of a worker paid by the month, the daily wages shall be 1/26th of his monthly wages; and in the case of any other worker, it shall be the daily wages or earnings, as the case may be.

(4) Notwithstanding the conditions on hours of work under Rule 24(1), a worker in an establishment may be required or allowed to work extra hours with the previous consent of the worker in writing for any of the following works and circumstances as may be recorded in the said consent.

(a) urgent repairs;

(b) work in the nature of preparatory or complementary work;

(c) work which is necessarily so intermittent that the intervals during which they do not work while on duty ordinarily amount to more than the intervals for rest;

(d) work which, for technical reasons, must be carried on continuously;

(e) engaged in making or supplying articles of prime necessity which must be made or supplied every day,

(f) engaged in a process which cannot be carried on except during fixed seasons;

(g) engaged in a process which cannot be carried on except at times dependent on the irregular action of natural forces;

(h) engaged in an engine room or boiler-houses or in attending to power-plant or transmission machinery;

(i) engaged in the process on account of the breakdown of machinery;

(j) engaged in the loading or unloading of railway wagons or lorries, or trucks;

(k) exceptional pressure of work and

(l) engaged in any work, which is notified by the central Government in the Official Gazette as a work of national importance;

(5) Period of overtime work shall be entered in overtime slips in duplicate with the below particulars, and a copy of which, duly signed by the manager or by a person duly authorised by him, shall be given to the worker immediately after completion of the overtime work.

Overtime Slip

Name & Address of the Establishment: Name & Designation of the Worker Date of Work & Normal Period of Work

Overtime period and duration in Hours

Work performed on Overtime Signature of Manager/Person Authorized

(6) The employment of a worker on overtime shall be subject to the following restrictions with respect to number of hours of overtime work to be worked by any worker.

(a) No worker shall be required or allowed to work in an establishment for more than 8 hours on overtime in any day.

(b) No worker shall be required or allowed to work in an establishment for more than 24 hours on overtime in any week.

(c) No worker shall be required or allowed to work in an establishment for more than 48 hours on overtime in any month.

(d) No worker shall be required or allowed to work in an establishment for more than 144 hours on overtime in any quarter.