Act Number: 27

Act Name: The Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996

Year: 1996

Enactment Date: 1996-08-19

Long Title: An Act to regulate the employment and conditions of service of building and other construction workers and to provide for their safety, health and welfare measures and for other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 29: Wages for overtime work.
    (1) Where any building worker is required to work on any day in excess of the number of hours constituting a normal working day, he shall be entitled to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages.
     (2) For the purposes of this section, "ordinary rates of wages" means the basic wages plus such allowances as the worker is for the time being entitled to but does not include any bonus.
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