Are the Puducherry overtime-hour rules in force, and what do they cover?

They are a final notification, G.O.Ms.No. 25/LAB/AIL/G/2025 dated 15 December 2025, by which the Lieutenant-Governor notifies the total number of hours of overtime under section 27 of the OSH Code for publication in the Official Gazette. The instrument is narrow: it covers only overtime hours and the related wage, rounding, daily-wage and spread-over conditions, not a full set of OSH rules.

What overtime wage rate applies in Puducherry?

Condition (1) provides that a worker who works more than eight hours in a day or more than forty-eight hours in a week, subject to the worker's consent, is entitled for that overtime work to wages at twice the ordinary rate of wages.

When must overtime wages be paid?

Condition (1) provides that overtime wages, at twice the ordinary rate, are to be paid at the end of each wage period, and that the overtime work is subject to the consent of the worker.

How is a fraction of an overtime hour counted?

Condition (2) provides that, in calculating overtime on any day, a fraction of an hour between fifteen and thirty minutes is counted as thirty minutes, and a fraction of more than thirty minutes is rounded and counted as an hour on actual basis.

How is the daily wage computed for a monthly-paid worker?

Condition (3) provides that, in calculating the wages or earnings of a worker paid by the month, the daily wages are one twenty-sixth of the monthly wages, and in the case of any other worker they are the daily wages or earnings as the case may be.

When may a worker's spread-over exceed twelve hours in a day?

Condition (4) allows the spread-over to exceed twelve hours in a day only in the listed works and circumstances in factories and building and other construction, including urgent repairs, preparatory or complementary work, necessarily intermittent work, technically continuous work, making articles of prime necessity, seasonal processes, work dependent on natural forces, engine rooms and boiler houses, breakdown of machinery, loading or unloading, exceptional press of work, and work notified as of national importance.

Is there an overall cap on overtime in Puducherry?

The proviso to the notification provides that no worker is to be allowed to work overtime exceeding one hundred and forty four hours in any quarter of a year.

Does this notification set out the full OSH rules for Puducherry?

No. As the opening clause and the notification's contents show, this instrument is confined to the total number of hours of overtime and the related wage, rounding, daily-wage and spread-over conditions under section 27 of the Code; the parsed source carries only this notification and not a broader set of Puducherry OSH rules.

Puducherry

Notified · 15 December 2025

What are Puducherry's overtime-hour rules under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020?

Q: What is the legal basis for the Puducherry overtime notification?

The opening clause states that the Lieutenant-Governor notifies the overtime hours in exercise of section 27 of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (Central Act 37 of 2020), read with S.O. No. 272(E) dated 16 January 2023 of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.

Jurisdiction: Puducherry state rules under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020.

Puducherry notified the total number of hours of overtime under section 27 of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 by G.O.Ms.No. 25/LAB/AIL/G/2025 dated 15 December 2025. This is a narrow instrument, not a full OSH rule set: it fixes the overtime wage rate, the rounding of overtime, the daily-wage basis, the spread-over conditions and a quarterly overtime cap. This page synthesizes those conditions; the verbatim text is on the linked /states page and the source PDF is below.