OVERTIME PAYMENTS
What is the overtime payment rate and how do I become eligible for it?
According to Section 24 (d) of Minimum Wage Ordinance, the issue of work on holidays and the wages for such work should be at a rate not less than the overtime rate.
If an overtime rate has been pre-determined, then it should be one-and-a quarter times the rate normally applied to such work.
Holidays with or without pay must be granted on a day within a specified number of days.
In the case of any special class of workers, payment for their work must be not less than one and a half times the normal rate, without a substitute holiday.
According to The Shop and Office Employees Act the period of work for a day is eight hours, and for a week it is forty five hours. Therefore any additional hours of work is considered overtime. However this provision is not applicable to managers and executives in a public institution.
The method of calculation of overtime per hour is: Monthly Salary x 1.5 / 240
With regard to the overtime work of women and young persons, Section 67 of the Factories Ordinance considers any fraction less than half an hour as a period of half an hour and similarly any fraction greater than half an hour but less than a whole hour, actually as a whole hour of work.