C. THE NEGOTIABLE ELEMENTS Normal Working Hours The normal day’s work of a worker other than a part-time worker or a watch person consists of eight hours daily or a maximum of ninety hours a day (see §14 of the Act). The normal day may start on any day of the week, whether or not a public holiday. The Act goes further and recognises as valid an agreement between an employer and a full-time worker wherein the worker agrees to work over and above the normal eight hours’ rate and without any extra remuneration for the excess hours but provided that the number of hours worked by a worker does not exceed the maximum of ninety hours in a fortnight. Overtime The general principle is that a worker is to be given a 24-hour notice before s/he undertakes overtime work (see §16 of the Act). For the purposes of computation, overtime denotes work completed by a worker who has completed the maximum number of ninety hours in a fortnight. The applicable rate for overtime hours per fortnight is 1.5 normal rate.
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