In five days week setup, are support service workers coming on duty on off day entitled to OT Wages?
Yes, All employees are entitled to overtime whenever they are called to work on Saturday or Sunday because five day week policy is adopted by the Company.
Accordingly, Saturday is holiday for such employees. Employer can not convert Saturday as working day for them because in other organisations Saturday is working day. Now question comes of category entitled for overtime wages. There is no question of category. Every employee who is called for work on holiday is entitled to OT Wages.
Punjab & Haryana High Court in the case of Municipal Workers Union, Ludhiana vs. Municipal Corporation, has also held that there can not be any discrimination between two sets of homogeneous employees for the purpose of OT Wages. It is impermissible under the Law.