Original title: Fujian: Payment of high temperature allowance for 5 consecutive months shall not be used for heatstroke prevention and cooling beverages
Xinhua News Agency, Fuzhou, July 9th (Reporter Wu Jianfeng) In the midsummer season, many places in Fujian successively issued high-temperature orange warnings. The Fujian Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security recently issued a notice that in order to reduce the impact of continuous high temperature weather on the work and health of employees, employers should scientifically and rationally arrange work, pay high temperature allowances in full, and must not use heatstroke prevention and cooling beverages to compensate.
According to regulations, employers who arrange for workers to engage in outdoor operations in hot weather above 35 degrees Celsius and cannot take effective measures to reduce the temperature of the workplace to below 33 degrees Celsius shall provide workers with high temperature allowances. In May, the payment will be calculated at 12 yuan/day for the actual number of high-temperature days, and 260 yuan/month from June to September or at the actual number of high-temperature days at 12 yuan/day.
The relevant person in charge of the labor inspection department of the Fujian Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security stated that in addition to issuing high temperature allowances as required, all employers should arrange their work scientifically and rationally according to production characteristics and specific conditions, and adopt appropriate measures to increase workers’ rest time and reduce outdoor high temperature periods. Work and other measures to ensure safe production. When the daily maximum temperature reaches 40 degrees Celsius or more, the employer should stop outdoor outdoor operations on that day; when the daily maximum temperature reaches 37 degrees Celsius or more and below 40 degrees Celsius, the employer arranges workers for outdoor outdoor operations throughout the day to not exceed 6 hours, continuous operation time The national regulations shall not be exceeded, and outdoor open-air operations shall not be arranged within 3 hours of the highest temperature period; when the daily maximum temperature reaches 35 degrees Celsius and 37 degrees Celsius, the employer shall adopt such methods as shift shifts to shorten the continuous operation time of workers, and shall not Arrange for outdoor workers to work overtime.
In the next step, the human resources and social security departments at all levels in Fujian Province will organize employers to conduct self-examination and self-correction of the implementation of high temperature allowance regulations. Further unblock reporting and complaint channels, and accept and investigate violations of regulations on working hours and high temperature allowances during high temperature weather in accordance with the law. At the same time, strengthen labor security supervision and law enforcement, combined with the eradication of wage arrears, and focus on the construction, transportation, logistics and express delivery, docks, environmental sanitation, processing and manufacturing industries such as outdoor operations and high-temperature area operations, and carry out employers’ compliance with high temperatures. Inspect the status of allowance laws and regulations, and strictly investigate and deal with violations of labor security laws and regulations in accordance with laws and regulations.
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