Overtime
When it bites, how to calculate.
Not yet verified against an official source
West Bengal Shops and Establishments Act, 1963
- Overtime rate
- Twice the ordinary rate of wages, and a higher rate under any agreement, award or custom is protectedThis comes from the Labour Department's reprint of the Act in the West Bengal Labour Gazette 2011. Its footnotes run to the amending Act of 2002, so an amendment after that would not appear in this copy; and the scan carries a previous reader's yellow highlighting on the page dealing with the recovery of wages. Neither affects the figures above, and both are said here so the copy can be judged.Section 13, as amended in 1988
- Overtime cap
- Ten hours in a day counting overtime, and one hundred and twenty hours of overtime in a yearSections 6(2) and 7(2), provisos
- When overtime is allowed in a shop
- For stock-taking, making up accounts or another prescribed business operationSection 6(2), proviso
- National holidays
- Work on a day the State Government declares to be a national holiday counts as overtimeExplanation to section 13
OSH Code, 2020
- Overtime rate
- Twice the ordinary rate of wagesOccupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 s.27