Rule 29. Hours and limitation of overtime work

(1) In pursuance of section 27 of Code, where in an establishment a worker works for more than eight hours in any day or for more than forty-eight hours in any week, as the case may be, he shall in respect of such overtime work be entitled to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages and shall be paid at the end of each wage period.

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

(3) In calculating the wages or earnings in the case of a worker paid by the month, the daily wages shall be one twenty sixth 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) the spread over for the workers shall exceed ten and half hours in any one day under the following works and circumstances in factories, dock works and building or other construction, namely;

(a) urgent repairs;

(b) work in the nature of preparatory or complimentary 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-rooms or boiler-houses or in attending to power-plant or transmission machinery;

(i) engaged in process on account of the break-down of machinery;

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

(k) engaged in any work, which is notified by the Central or State Government in the Official Gazette as a work of national importance:

Provided that no worker shall be allowed to work overtime exceeding four hours in a day and twenty four hours in a week and one hundred twenty five hours in any quarter of a year.