Rule 46: Wages for overtime under section 27

46. Wages for overtime under section 27.- (1) Where in an establishment, a worker works for more than eight hours in any day as daily wager, or for more than forty-eight hours in any week, as the case may be, he shall in respect of such overtime work be entitled to wages at the rate of twice his rate of wages and shall be paid at the end of each wage period. (2) In calculating overtime on any day, a fraction of an hour between 15 to 30 minutes shall be counted as 30 minutes and in case of more than 30 minutes it shall be rounded and shall be counted as an hour on actual basis. (3) In calculating the wages or earnings in the case of a worker paid by the month, the daily wages shall be 1/26th of his monthly wages and in the case of any other worker, it shall be the daily wages or earnings as the case may be. (4) The spread over for the workers shall exceed period of work notified under sub-rule (2) of rule 42 in any one day under the following works and circumstances in respect of factory, beedi and cigar works and building or other construction work, namely:- (a) urgent repairs; (b) work in the nature of preparatory or complimentary work; (c) work which is necessarily so intermittent that the intervals during which they do not work while on duty ordinarily amount to more than the intervals for rest; 468 ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍राजस्‍थान‍राज-पत्र,‍जून‍30,‍2026‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍ ‍भाग‍4(ग) (d) work which for technical reasons must be carried on continuously; (e) engaged in making or supplying articles of prime necessity which must be made or supplied every day; (f) engaged in a process which cannot be carried on except during fixed seasons; (g) engaged in a process which cannot be carried on except at times dependent on the irregular action of natural forces; (h) engaged in engine-rooms or boiler-houses or in attending to power-plant or transmission machinery; (i) engaged in process on account of the break-down of machinery; (j) engaged in the loading or unloading of railway wagons or lorries or trucks; (k) exceptional press of work; and (l) engaged in any work, which is notified by the Central Government in the Official Gazette as a work of national importance: Provided that no worker shall be allowed to work overtime exceeding one hundred forty-four hours in any quarter of a year.