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| Type | Commercial Circular |
|---|---|
| Topic | ticket-checking |
clause (i) ………….. 4-1/2 hours a week Fixation of Hours of Work:- The hours of work of a Railway
Railway Servants (Hours of Employment) Rules, 1961 were framed under the Indian Railway Act, 1890.
Subsequently, in the year 2005, it is amended as ‘Railway Servants ( Hours of Work and
Period of Rest) Rules, 2005. The Railway Servants ( Hours of Work and Period of Rest) Rules, 2005
determines and regulates the hours of employment of the workers, necessary periods of rest between two
periods of work, weekly rest, overtime allowance, etc.
The ‘Railway Servants ( Hours of Work and Period of Rest) Rules, 2005 are applicable to
all non-gazetted Rly. Employees including casual labour and substitutes except those who are
governed under the Factory Act, the Mines Act, the Minimum Wages Act and Merchant Shipping Act ( i.e.,
those employed in Workshops or on ferries).
CLASSIFICATION OF SERVICES UNDER HOER:- All employments of Railway Servants
except those ‘EXCLUDE’ from the purview of the HOER are assumed to be ‘CONTINUOUS’. Thereafter,
on the basis of factual job analysis, the employment may be classified either as ‘INTENSIVE’ or
‘ESSENTIALLY INTERMITTENT’.
1. INTENSIVE:- The employment of a Railway servant is said to be Intensive when it has been
declared to be so by the prescribed authority on the ground that it is of a strenuous nature involving
continued concentration or hard manual labour with little or no period of relaxation.
Staff under this category: Section Controllers, Telephone / Wireless Operators.
2. ESSENTIALLY INTERMITTENT: The employment of a Railway servant is said to be
Essentially Intermittent where the daily hours of duty including the period of inaction aggregating 6 hours
or more (inaction period of less than 5 minutes should be ignored)having at least one such period of one
hour and two such periods of half an hour during which the Rly. Servant may be on duty but is not called
upon to display either physical activity or sustained attention.
Staff under this category: Waiting Room Bearers, Bungalow peons, Saloon Attendants, Safaiwalas,
Gate Men, Care Takers.
3. EXCLUDED:-The employment of railway servant is said to be ‘Excluded’, if he belongs to one of the
following categories: -
(a) Staff employed in confidential capacity. (b) Certain staff of Health and Medical department
(c) Armed guards and other personnel subject to discipline similar to that of armed guards
(d) Staff of Railway Schools imparting technical training or academic education (e) Supervisory Staff.
Excluded staff has no limitation of hours of employment.
Staff under this category: - Confidential Staff, Stenos, Matrons, Sister-in–Charge, Family Planning Field
Workers, Projectionists etc.
4. CONTINUOUS:-Staff who are not declared as Intensive, Essentially Intermittent and Excluded
come under the category of continuous staff. Category of Staff: ASMs, Drivers, Guards, TTEs, Non-
supervisory clerks, Typists.
Fixation of Hours of Work:- The hours of work of a Railway
servant as per roster may be continuous or may have short interval for rest,
or breaks due to exigencies of service or deployment.
(1) Subject to the limit specified in section 132 and having regard to the
requirement of the service and the nature of work, the Railway
Administration shall fix the normal rostered hours of work for the various
categories of railway servants in the manner indicated in these rules.
The rostered hours of work of Railway servants shall consist of-
(i) Standard hours of duty;
(ii) Additional hours as may be prescribed in the case of certain categories
classified as essentially intermittent; and
(iii) Time required to do Preparatory or Complementary work or both for
those who are required to do such work.
The standard hours of duty for different classes of employment of Railway
servants shall be as under : -
(a) Intensive 42 hours a week;
(b) Continuous 48 hours a week; and
(c) Essentially Intermittent 48 hours a week;
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