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INSTRUCN97,

Colonial Secretariat,

Hong Kong.

16th June, 2948.

SECRETARIAT DMINISTRATIVE CIRCULAR No. 25.

OVERTIME ALLOWANCE MONTHLY PAID STAFF.

1. The following revised regulations (for the unavoidable complexities

of which I apologise) governing the payment of overtime allowances to monthly

paid staff ore effective from 1st January, 1948. An amendment to General

Order 101 will be published in due course.

2.

Although the whole time of public servants is at the service of the

Government, overtime allowances may be paid to certain monthly paid officers,

where, on direct instructions from the head of a department and subject to any

administrative regulation to the contrary, these officers have worked for at

least 48 hours in any one week. If a public holiday falls on a full working

day, this standard week of 48 hours is reduced by 8 hours, if on a Saturday,

by 4 hours for the week in which the holiday occurs. The week is regarded as

starting at 8 a.m. on Monday.

3. Work on Sundays and public holidays wherever possible, and if un-

avoidable, should be compensated by time off. If it is absolutely impractic-

ble to grant time off, overtime will be paid.

4. The standard office hours for indoor staff ere from 9 2.m. to 5 p.m. on week days and from 9 .m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays (i.o. 44 hours per week).

Ir a holiday should occur on a week day, the standard hours of work for that week should be reduced by 8 hours or, if on Saturday, by 4 hours. Payment

vill be made only for hours worked in excess of 48 in a week, (or of the

appropriate minimun as defined in paragraph 2 when a public holiday occurs during the week) i.e. the first bur hours worked in excess of the standard office hours will be unpaid. Time worked on Sundays and public holidays is

reckoned double for making up the four hours difference. The effect is that

an officer who has done no overti e during the week is expected to do only two

hours on a Sunday or a public holiday before he qualifies for overtime.

5.

Monthly paid officers in the following categories will not qualify

for overtime allowance:

(a) Administrative, professional, senior executive officers, and

technical officers of a grade equivalent to or above Chief

Health Inspector.

P.T.O.