Overtime allowance & calculation

For

Group C & D Railway Employee

Overtime allowance is an allowance paid to railway servants for actual time worked in excess of the hours of employment prescribed by any law or rule.  

The Railway servants Hours of Employment Regulations specify the classes of staff in respect of which a railway administration is under an obligation to pay overtime allowance when such staffs are called upon to work in excess of the number of hours prescribed under the said Regulations. 

 (1) A railway administration is also under an obligation to pay overtime allowance to staff (other than those who hold positions of supervision or management or are engaged in a confidential capacity) who are employed in such workshops or printing presses as have been declared to be factories under the Factories Act, 1948, when they are required to work in excess of the number of hours prescribed in that Act. 

(2) In the case of the employees of the printing presses of the ex-East Indian   and Eastern Bengal Railway portions, working on the Eastern Railway, overtime will be paid for at half-hourly basis, the half-hour rate of wages of the employee concerned being taken to be 1/400th part of the monthly rate of the pay of the employee.  All overtime pay will be at a rate 25 per cent in excess of the monthly rate of pay of the employee.  Each half-hour or part of half an hour exceeding 15 minutes will be reckoned as half an hour.

Chargemen, assistant Chargemen (including Journeymen) Mistries Grade 1 and workmen employed in printing presses, workshops and sheds, who are not entitled to overtime allowance under rule 1503 or 1504 above, may at the discretion of the General Manager and subject to such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, be granted an overtime allowance for the actual time for which they are called upon to work in excess of the normal working hours, or for Sundays and holidays when they are called upon to work on such days.

Consolidated monthly overtime (As per IRCE 1506) -- In lieu of payment for actual overtime worked, staff referred to in rule 1505 may, at the discretion of the General Manager, be granted a consolidated monthly allowance, if, due to the nature of their duties, they are generally required to work overtime for the greater part  of the month and the calculation of actual overtime worked is either inconvenient or undesirable.

  Annexure - A

How to calculate over time:-

Claiming/ payment of non-statutory over time (one and halftime the normal wages) and statutory over time (double the rate of normal wages)

Credit of time spent on leave/absence for purpose of overtime:

In case of running staff, the two-weekly limit of 104 / 108 hours should be adjusted in proportion to the days of absence / leave in that period. (In calculating overtime allowance, separate credit will not be given for the days of rest.)

An example is shown to give credit of time for over time:

Say, Mr. x has (deemed) rostered hours are 104 hours in a two-weekly period.

He worked 74 hours in 7 days and availed 2 days rest and 5 days leave.

His over time will be calculated as under:-

i. Rostered hours of work during 2 weekly period – 104 hrs.

ii. Statutory limit of work during the period – 108 hrs.

iii. No. of hours of work he required to perform on the basis of roster during 9 days (actual working days 7 + days of rest 2 )

iv. = 104 X 9 / 14 = 66 hrs. 51 mts or 67 hours.

(For calculating overtime work, fraction of an hour will be treated as one if it is 30 minutes or more. Fraction below 30 minutes being dropped. Where both the total hours worked by an employee and the hours that he would have put in during the period of his absence come in fractions, both the figures including fractions will be added first and rounding will be done from the total at the final stage.

(R.B ‘s No. E(LWA) 66 HER 42 OF 17.11.66, Sl.No. ER6569/SE439/66).

v. No. of hours of work to be performed under statutory limit during 9 days = 108 X 9 / 14 = 69 hrs 26 mts or 69 hours.

vi. There by no. of non-statutory overtime hours = 69 - 67 = 2 hrs.

vii. No. of hours actually worked = 74 hrs.

viii. No. of hours of OT admissible = 74 - 66.51= 7hrs 9 mts or 7 hours.

ix. No. of non- statutory over time hours (1 ½ times) = 2 hrs. and statutory overtime hours (double) = 7 - 2 = 5hrs.

No. of days of

Leave / absence

No.of hours of work to

Perform on the basis of roster

No.of hours of work to

Perform under statutory limit

No. of non statutory overtime hours

Nil

104

108

4

1

97

100

3

2

89

93

4

3

82

85

3

4

74

77

3

5

67

69

2

6

60

62

2

7

52

54

2

8

45

46

1

9

37

39

2

10

30

31

1

11

23

23

Nil

12

15

15

Nil

13

8

8

Nil