Administration Manual - B.E.S.T. Undertaking.

the Basic + D.A for more that 8 hours duty per day
irrespective of weekly working hours.
Payment for working on weekly off day as per Minimum
Wages Act, 1948 has been briefed in the Instruction no. 5 -
STK/1033/11/91 dated 31/01/1991.
Instruction No. 48- STK/1033/931/97 dated 24/10/1997-
Overtime to the staff of Operations & Maintenance of Electric
Supply Branch: The staff members of Operations &
Maintenance department & Street Lighting Department of
Electric Supply Branch are exempted from the obligatory
provision of rest interval after every 5 hours of work by the
Commissioner of labour vide his order dated 27/11/1957. As
such they are allowed to attend straight duty of 8 hours
without any rest interval. The staff members having outdoor
duties do not clock their time cards for duty hours performed
by them & in their cases negative attendance is advised to
the TK Department. As such while working out overtime
payment TK is not responsible for verifying duty hours & OT
is paid on recommendations of sanctioning authority in such
cases. No employee should be paid OT for more than 16
hours on any day even if the sanctioning authority has
recommended more than 16 hours OT on any day.
( In exigencies of work if an employee performs duty for
more than 16 hours ? )
Holiday Working : In case an employee performs his normal
full duty (required to perform on week day’s from Monday to
Friday) on a holiday (without any late arrival or early
departure), he is held eligible for payment of double wages
(one day’s additional Wages & one day’s additional DA). In
such cases in order to determine the eligibility of double
wages for working on a Holiday there is no need for verifying
or adding the timings of his late arrival/ early departure as
the case may be of the other days of the month unless he is
late on the respective Holiday. (Instruction No. 84- STK/
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