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Para No. 3.5.4 Annexure: 3-A13

Hours of Employment Regulations

1. Application. Hours of Employment Regulations will apply to all (non-gazetted) railway
servants including casual labour and substitutes except those governed under the Factories
Act, the Mines Act, Minimum Wages Act and the Merchant Shipping Act.

2. Classification. Railway servants governed under Hours of Employment Regulations are classified
as under—

(a) Intensive;
(b) Essentially intermittent;
(c) Excluded; and
(d) Continuous.

2.1. Intensive. Die 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.

The work of a railway servant shall be held to be intensive if it is so declared by the Head of the
Railway on the ground that it involves sustained and strenuous attention or physical exertion—

Such that periods of rest, inaction or relaxation do not aggregate to 6 hours or more in a
cycle of 24 hours, and

Such that, in any shift of 8 hours he does not get periods of inaction, rest or relaxation of at
least one hour in the aggregate.

2.2. Essentially Intermittent. The employment of a railway servant is said to be Essentially
Intermittent when it has been declared to bo so by the prescribed authority on the ground
that the daily hours of duty of the railway servant normally include periods of inaction
aggregating 6 hours or more (including at least one such period of not less than one hour or
two such periods of not less than half an hour each) during which the railway servant may be
on duty but is not called upon to display either physical activity or sustained attention.

2.3. Excluded. The employment of a railway servant is said to be 'excluded' if he belongs to
one of the following categories namely:

(a) Staff employed in a confidential capacity;
(b) Armed guards or other personnel subject to discipline similar to that of the armed
police forces;
(c) Staff of Railway Schools imparting technical training or academic education;
(d) Staff classified as supervisory; and
(e) Such categories of staff of Health and Medical Department as may be specified by
the prescribed authority.

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