Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
18.Wages fee overtime work .-
(1) Where any employee employed in any industrial
premises is required to work overtime, he shall be entitled in respect of such
overtime work, to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages.
(2) Where the employees in an industrial
premises are paid on a piece-rate basis, the overtime rate shall be calculated,
for the purposes of this section, at the time rates which shall be as nearly as
possible equivalent to the daily average of their full time earning for the
days on which they had actually worked during the week immediately proceeding
the week in which the overtime work has been done.
(3) For the purposes of this section, "ordinary rates of wages" means
the basic wages plus such allowance, including the cash equivalent of the
advantage accruing through the concessional sale to
the employees of food grains and other articles as the employee is for the time
being entitled to but does not include bonus.
(4) The cash equivalent of the advantage accruing through the concessional sale to an employee of food grains and other
articles shall be computed as often as may be prescribed on the basis of the
maximum quantity of food grains and other articles admissible to a standard
family.
Explanation 1.--"Standard
family" means a family consisting of the employee, his or her spouse and
two children requiring in all three adult consumption units.
Explanation II.-- "Audit consumption units" means the
consumption unit of a male above the age of fourteen years; and the consumption
unit of a female above the age of fourteen years and that of a child shall be
calculated at the rate of eight-tenths and six-tenths, respectively, of one
adult consumption unit.