HOER Rule No.10: Principle Of Averaging And Payment Of Overtime Allowance

10.  Principle Of Averaging And Payment Of Overtime Allowance:-

(1)   Where a Railway servant is required to render extra hours of duty beyond the rostered hours fixed in accordance with rule 8 or beyond the limits specified for different classes of Railway servant under Section-132, he shall be paid overtime for such extra hours of work, subject to the principle of averaging as specified in sub-rule (2).

(2)   Averaging shall be done by averaging of the hours of work over the averaging periods as specified in Section-132 which has been adopted to provide a reasonable measure of elasticity as essential in railway working for certain classes of Railway servants and it shall apply to-

(i)    Running staff;

(ii)    Operating staff;

(iii)   Shift workers; and

(iv)   Those other Railway servants whose work is connected with the work of any of the categories of Railway servants mentioned in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii).

(3)   Subject to the provisions contained in sub-section (4) of Section-132, payment of overtime for excess hours of work shall be made as under;

(i)    For the excess hours of work rendered by a Railway servant between the limits of prescribed rostered hours of work and the hours prescribed in Section 132, during the relevant averaging period, payment shall be made at 1½ times the ordinary rate of pay; and

(ii)  For the excess hours of work rendered beyond the limits prescribed in Section-132, payment shall be made at two times the ordinary rate of pay.

(4)   The hourly rate of overtime shall be worked out on the basis of rostered hours over the relevant averaging period as under:-

[Authority: RBE No.131/2005, No.E(LL)2001/HER/9, 09.08.2005]