Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter X. - Railways - continued

Collection:: Economics Books

158 CHAPTER X, works staff. It is prescribed that in every calendar month these railway servants shall enjoy one period of rest of not less than 48 consecutive hours or two periods of 24 hours each. Apart from these, all continuous workers, with the exception meantime of the running staff, will enjoy a rest period of 24 consecutive hours per week. Essentially intermittent workers and supervisory staff are not given a weekly rest under the rules, although a number are said to enjoy it. We recommend that the weekly rest of not less than 24 hours provided under the Act of 1930, subject to the usual emergency exceptions, should be granted to all continuous workers as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. An attempt has been made to forecast the position when the employees of all railways, including running staff, come under the statu- tory limitations. We have been supplied by the Railway Board with a statement covering all employees, including those coming within the scope of the Factories and Mines Acts, who, as above indicated, are not covered by these rules. The percentages are based on an analysis of the figures of four of the state-managed railways on which arrangements for the application of the regulation to all excepting running staff are well advanced. The forecast of approximate percentages of employees, including running staff, when the Hours of Employment Rules have been fully applied is as follows :— Employees excluded as supervisory .. i Employees excluded on account of light character of work Other employees classified as in work of essentially inter. mittent character with maximum of 84 hours per week .. Classified as engaged in continuous work up to a maximum of 60 hours per week other than factory and mine work. ers Factory and mine workers .. in ve AR 78 29 100 There is little difference between railways as regards the percentages of employees classified under the first two categories, but the percentages of essentially intermittent staff varies considerably owing to variations in traffic density and other factors, There are differences of opinion as to the employment that should be scheduled as © essentially intermittent and statutory provision is made for the appointment of supervisors of railway labour whose inspection of actual working conditions under the new regulations should help towards improved classification of the differ ent kinds of work under this head. As shown above, the great bulk of railway servants are classified as continuous workers, Excluding those who come within the scope of the Factories and Mines Acts, figures sup- plied indicate that, when the new rules have been fully applied, 12%, of the continuous workers will be employed not more than 48 hours, 43%, not more than 54 hours and 45%, not more than 60 hours per week. Including factory and mine workers, it is estimated that the numbers of the con. tinuous workers employed for not more than 48. 54 and 60 hours respectively, will be about equal.

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