What Is The Overtime Policy In India? At What Rate Will A Worker Get Paid For Overtime Hours In Office?

Introduction 

In India many people do overtime jobs to earn more than the normal wage for the well being of them and their family. Overtime basically means when a worker works more than the assigned working hours and receives extra remuneration for working in those extra hours. This concept of overtime helps people to earn more money by working extra hours to live a good life.

Provisions Governing Overtime

In India basically the concept of overtime is governed by the Factories act, 1948. The Factories Act, 1948 also enumerates the premises which will be governed under the provisions of this act, any premises where 10 or more than 10 people are employed with the aid of power or 20 or more people are employed without aid of power, where any manufacturing process is conducted, will come under the ambit of this act.
The Factories Act, 1948 also states the maximum working hours for the employees under section 54 of the act states that daily working hour cannot exceed more than 9-hour, Section 51 of the act speaks about the maximum working hours in a week which is 48 hours.

Section 59 (1) of the Factories Act, 1948  states that when any worker works more than nine hours a day or 48 hours a week, he will be entitled to  get overtime pay for the extra hours worked. The wage for extra job will be calculated as twice the normal wage. For example, if a person earns 200 Rs per hour and works 9 hours a day then he will be earning 1800Rs and if he works overtime extra 2 hours, then he will get twice the normal wage which means he will get 400Rs for each extra hour which is (2 * 400) which means his total wage for the day will be (1800 + 800) which will be 2600Rs.

Conclusion 

Hence it can be concluded that the overtime wages are the reward for the extra work done by the worker. The overtime wages are basically twice the amount of the normal wages because it is for the appreciation of the efforts and hard work of the worker.

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