S.No. |
Subject |
Existing Provisions
Of HOER |
Changes demanded
By AILRSA |
Recommendation by
High Power Committee |
1. |
Total Duty at a
stretch(Sign ON to Sign OFF) |
12hrs plus 1 hr(13hrs)
and unlimited |
6hrs for LP(Mail)/LP(PASS)
with 1hr.break for EMU and 7hrs for LP(Goods) |
11 hrs
plus 1 hour (12hr)
|
2. |
Running duty at a
stretch |
10hrs and 2 hrs may
be extended |
No distinguish in
duty hours |
09hrs
and 2 hrs may be extended and 8hrs Running duty for LP(M) |
3. |
Spare travel |
Not counted for
duty at a stretch |
Spare travel should
be treated as duty |
Spare travel is
treated as duty |
4. |
Classification |
Continuous |
Intensive |
No change
|
5. |
Weekly/Fortnightly
Duty hours limits |
104hrs.fortnightly
/ 90hrs for LP(M) superfast |
Weekly average of
40 hrs |
No change.
Fortnightly averaging continues 104hrs. fortnightly / 90hrs for all
LP(M)s |
6. |
Headquarters Rest |
12hrs
for duty of less than 8hrs.
16hrs
for duty of more than 8hrs |
Not less than
16hrs plus 2 hrs/ Curtailed portion of rest at O/S should be given
in addition to normal HQ rest. |
16hrs
irrespective of duty performed. (variations permitted for Suburban
services by zonal railways) |
7. |
Periodical rest |
Four periods of
30 hrs or 5 periods of 22hrs in a month |
Four periods of
46 hours
ie, PR is after HQ
rest.. |
Four periods of
40hrs in a month |
8. |
Outstation rest |
8 hrs Rest after
8hrs or more duty
Equal to the hours
of duty for less than 8hrs duty |
O/S rest uniformly
8hrs irrespective of duty performed.
Waiting hours at
O/S should be counted as hours of employment |
8 hrs
irrespective of duty performed. (variations permitted for Suburban
services by zonal railways) |
9. |
Absence from
Headquarters |
Shall not be more
than 3 or 4 days at a stretch normally. (At present 36hours as
per Rly.Bd.order) |
Should be reduced
to 36 hours maximum |
Shall be fixed at
72hrs |
10. |
Continuous Night
Duties |
Limited to six
consecutive nights |
Restrict consecutive night
duties to two with an interval of 2 days between them. |
shall be limited to two
and 3rd night is with some conditions |
11. |
OTA/ BRA |
1˝ times of hourly
rate after 104hrs and double the rate after 108hrs
No BRA for suburban
and at O/S |
BRA
shall be paid whenever rest is breached either at H/Q or at
O/S and also for suburban services and shall be paid
four times
after weekly 40 hrs.
OTA double the rate
to have a check. |
A maximum limit of
125hrs duty per fortnight. No change in rules for OTA/BRA. |
12. |
Running Room |
Subsidised meal by
contract system
Staying facilities
are poor |
The system prevailed earlier
to cook for the individual’s choice to be restored.
“Three star” facilities with
monitoring of worker/employer representatives. |
Fully subsidized meals should
be served as in civil aviation sector.
A/C Running room. In
metropolitan cities, a beginning may be made by providing 3/4 star
hotel accommodation at outstation. |
13. |
Holiday |
Most of the
Holidays could not be availed and meager allowance is paid |
A wage equal to one day’s pay
to be granted apart from granting Compensatory Rest in lieu of
un-availed holidays.
|
No recommendation |
14. |
Meal Break/Personal
Need Break |
No such provision
is present. |
Meal break time and personal
need break time are to be allowed in the schedule as followed in many
foreign railways.
|
No such recommendation in HOER
but bio-toilet and waterless urinals to be provided in loco cab. |
15. |
Resume from Leave/
Holiday |
Authorities ask to resume
duty at 00.00 hrs on the following day in some zone/division. |
To be allowed to resume duty
after availing any kind of leave or holiday, after 8 hours on the
following day. |
No recommendation |
16. |
Crew Scheduling |
For the majority of
continuous classified worker in Railways duty rosters are framed
basing on the guidelines prescribed in the HOER 2005. But no such
guidelines for running staff even in rostered job. |
There should be
guidelines to prepare crew links or crew schedules which take care of
human needs. In Goods service crew destination /crew beat has to be
informed to the crew while they are called for duty. First In First
Out basis in goods crew booking. |
No recommendation |
17. |
Emergency Clause
|
In the present
Rules, there is a scope for misinterpretation by using
emergency/exemption clause to the disadvantage of loco running staff.
The staff are put to longer hours of working while invoking the
clause. |
It is most
important to clearly define emergency/exemption clause to avoid
hardship and exploitation inline with Foreign Railways which define
this clause without any ambiguity. |
No change in provisions and
the present ambiguity continues. |
18. |
Job analysis
|
No Job Analysis |
Modernization has increased
skill work, stress and strain of LRS manifold than earlier hence Job analysis must be done |
Increased mental
stress due to modernization has been accepted but job analysis has
not been attempted. |
19. |
Punishment |
Minimum punishment
of removal from service for SPAD |
Capital punishment
even for unintentional mistake (SPAD) to be reviewed. |
Punishment to SPAD to be
reviewed taking into account repercussions and past record of LP. |