IREC Rule No.1504: Obligation Of Railway Administration To Pay Overtime Allowance
1504. Obligation Of Railway Administration To Pay Overtime Allowance:-
(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% 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.