Payment of wages for Industrial and Non Industrial Employees
(Piece Work System & Overtime Working etc)
The employees of the Ordnance Factories are categorized in four groups for the
purpose of compensation in regard to their work viz.
1. Group ‘A’ & ‘B’ Gazetted Officers
2. Group ‘B’ & ‘C’ Non Gazetted Officers
3. Group ‘C’ & ‘D’ Non Industrial Employees and
4. Group ‘C’ & ‘D’ Industrial Employees
All the employees of the Ordnance Factories are Central Government employees and depending upon the post held, they are assigned with a particular scale of pay and their ‘basic pay’
In addition to the basic pay, all the employees are paid certain other allowances at
a prescribed rate depending upon the place of posting and applicability, as announced by
the Government of India from time to time. Some of the allowances, which are common
to all categories, are Dearness Allowance, House Rent Allowance, City Compensatory
Allowance, Transport Allowance, Hill Compensatory & Bad Climate Allowance, Project
allowance etc.
Other allowances which are paid to the specific category of employees are:
(i) Group ‘A’ Medical Officers - Non-practicing allowance
(ii) Group ‘B’ Gazetted & Non Gazetted Officers - Risk Allowance
(iii) Group ‘C’ non-Gazetted Officers and
Group ‘C’ & ‘D’ non-Industrial Employees –
Risk Allowance,
Overtime Allowance and
Night Duty Allowance.
(iv) Group ‘C’ & ‘D’ Industrial Employees -
Risk Allowance,
Overtime
Allowance and Night Duty Allowance,
Night Shift Bonus,
Piece-work profit to Production worker and
Incentive Bonus to Maintenance worker.
Remuneration to the employees of Ordnance Factories is paid on monthly basis.
All category of employees are paid on last day of the month while wages to the Industrial
Employees are paid up to tenth day of the following month as prescribed in the Factories
Act.
While the total salary paid to various categories of employees from Gr. ‘A’
Gazetted Officers to Gr. ‘D’ non-Industrial Employees is simple arithmetical summation
of pay and all other allowances, the total wages paid to an Industrial Employee are
calculated in an elaborate manner which needs some explanation.
For the purpose of wage calculation, the Industrial Employees are divided in two
sub-categories viz. Day Worker and Piece Worker. A Day Worker can be any Industrial
Employee in general who is paid on the basis of attendance. Their work is generally not
measurable and non repetitive in nature. Consequently they are not entitled for any
incentive except Essential Maintenance Worker who is paid an Incentive Bonus. A Piece
Worker is essentially a worker engaged in production, and whose work is measurable and
repetitive in nature. These workmen are pa id an incentive known as Piece-work Profit.
The total wages paid constitute the following elements:
Duty Pay
(Time Wages / Nominal Time wages)
Other elements of Pay
Leave Pay
Holiday Pay
Injury Pay
Idle Time Pay
Over Time Pay
Fixed Allowances
DA/HRA/CCA/Transport Allowance
Other Allowances
OT Bonus
Night Shift Bonus
Night Duty Allowance
Piece-work Profit to Production Worker
Incentive Bonus to essential Maintenance Worker.
The definition of different elements of pay & allowances given in Table-I and that
of standard working hours are given below.
Working Hours : For the purpose of calculation of duty pay and overtime, normal
working hours are taken as 44.75 hours/week with 8 hours a day from Monday to Friday
and 4.25 hrs on a Saturday. The workers become eligible for Overtime payment for
working beyond normal hours.
Weekly Holiday : Sunday is the weekly holiday for which no separate payment is
admissible.
Duty Pay or Time Wages for the Day Workers including the Maintenance Workers
are calculated for each month on the basis of actual attendance for the month according to
the following formula: P * A / (N - S - H)
where :
P- monthly rate of pay of the worker, A- number of days present or attendance
N- number of days in a calendar month,
S- number of Sundays in month, H- number of paid holidays, if any in the month.
Duty Pay or Time Wages for the Piece Workers are calculated for each month on the
basis of actual attendance for the month according to formula : P * A / (N - S), where the
symbols have the same meaning as that of the day workers.
Daily Rate of Pay : Leave Pay, Holiday Pay, Injury Pay and Idle Time Pay are
calculated on the basis of daily rate of pay as under:
Piece Worker - P / (N - S)
Day Worker - P / (N - S - H)
Note: Payment of Idle Time is made under following circumstances -
(i) High atmospheric humidity hindering certain operations in explosive
factories or unfavourable weather conditions hindering operations in
optical works depending on sunlight.
(ii) Failure of power supply.
(iii) Breakdown of plant and machinery.
(iv) Temporary shortage of materials.
(v) Temporary shortage of work in highly specialised sections.
Night Duty Allowance : Workers are entitled to get Night Duty Allowance @ 10 mins
for each hour of work done between 2200 hr s to 0600 hrs in the night shift. The
prescribed hourly rate for NDA is (Pay + DA + CCA)/200.
Overtime : Industrial employees are entitled to additional payment for work done
beyond the normal working hours. There are two sets of rules applicable for overtime
payment viz. (i) Departmental Rules and (ii) The Factories Act.
For work beyond normal working hours and upto 9 hrs. a day or beyond 44.75 hrs
upto 48 hrs in a week, overtime is paid under departmental rules which is known as DOT.
For work done beyond 9 hrs. a day or 48 hrs a week, payment is admissible at twice the
rate of pay plus all allowances under the Factories Act (often loosely termed as OT
Bonus).
OVER TIME PAYMENTS UNDER DEPARTMENTAL RULES (DOT)
In the case of Day Workers, the overtime is paid at the rate of Basic Pay +
Dearness Allowances + City Compensatory Allowance + Personal Pay + Special Pay +
Pension to the extent as applicable, divided by 200 for each hour of overtime worked.
The hourly rate is the same for the work done both in Day & Night Shift.
In the case of Piece Workers, again there are two sets of rules for DOT. It is
calculated @ Basic Pay (alone)/200 per hour in the day shift. For working in the night
shift, an additional element known as Night Shift Bonus is also added. This is calculated
for half an hour for each hour of overtime worked under departmental rules @ (Basic Pay
+ Dearness Allowances + City Compensatory Allowance)/200.
OVER TIME PAYMENTS UNDER THE FACTORIES ACT, 1948
For work done, beyond 9 hrs. a day or 48 hrs a week, there are two sets of rules –
one for the Day Worker and the other for the Piece Worker.
Day Worker: Hourly rate of payment which are applicable equally in the day shift as well
in the night shift is calculated at the rate = twice the pay & allowances/200.
Piece Worker: Hourly rate of payment in the day shift is calculated at the rate = twice the
pay & allowances/200. In the night shift, the same becomes = (twice the pay + pay/4 +
allowances)/200.
Piece Work Profit : All recurring items of production are appropriately assigned a piece-
work rate in terms of ‘hours’ after careful time and motion study. If a worker is engaged
on the piece-work system and he produces quantity ‘Q’ in the month (duly certified by
the QA as "accepted") for which the allowed time is ‘t’ per piece, he would earn Total
Time (T) = (Q)*(t). If his monthly attendance is ‘A’ hours, his piece work profit
expressed in percentage terms (PWP%) would be (T-A)*100/A. This would entitle him to
get an element of incentive equal to NTW*PWP%/100 where NTW is the abbreviation
for Nominal Time Wages. Here, the Nominal Time Wages (NTW) is nothing but the
Duty Pay or Time Wages calculated for the Piece Workers at the minimum of the scale to
which he belongs to i.e. Pmin* A / (N - S).
The above calculation is for the individual piece workers. Many a times, the
piece-workers work in a gang in which case the unique piece- work profit percentage of
the gang is equally applicable to all th e members of the gang for the purpose of
calculating their piece work profits.
Incentive Bonus to Essential Maintenance Workers : An incentive bonus is paid to
essential maintenance workers of skilled and semi skilled category employed in the
maintenance of plant and services within the factory. This category of bonus is linked
with the profit earned by the piece workers an d paid at the @ 50% of the piece work
profit earned in the month by all the piece workers, both individual and gang workers of
the production section, if he is attached to a production section or @ 50% of the average
piece work profit earned in the month by all the piece workers both individual and gang
piece workers in the factory, if he is not attached to a specific production section.
