Do enterprises need to pay overtime pay for arranging work during the Spring Festival?

Enterprises that arrange work during the Spring Festival need to pay overtime wages.

On January 27th, the State Council Office held a press conference on "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Ensuring People's Local Service for the New Year". Zhang Ying, Director of the Employment Promotion Department of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said that a number of temporary posts such as disinfection and epidemic prevention and community service would be developed according to the needs, so as to make willing migrant workers contribute to the anti-epidemic protection in their places of employment. "Here, we should also remind workers who arrange overtime during the Spring Festival holiday that they should pay overtime wages according to law."

Zhang Ying said that recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Transport, the the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the All-China Women's Federation deployed and launched a special campaign to "welcome send warm in the Spring Festival and keep jobs". Through the "four stays" initiative, migrant workers were promoted to have care on the spot during the New Year, enterprises were guaranteed to start work and return to work, and migrant workers were supported to work after the holiday.

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Details of the "four stays" initiative:

First, send warm will pay attention to it, and will guide all localities to organize various forms of "send warm" and collective Chinese New Year activities, encourage enterprises to distribute red envelopes and Chinese New Year gift packages for leaving their posts, and let migrant workers feel at ease for the New Year with warm-hearted measures.

Second, the policy of staying on duty will be strengthened, which will encourage and guide enterprises to reasonably arrange off-peak production holidays or holidays in combination with the needs of production and the wishes of workers, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of local workers for the New Year. At the same time, we will increase subsidies for the implementation of policies such as replacing training with work, guide employers to stabilize labor relations, not lay off employees, and reduce layoffs, and promote enterprises to stay in jobs with posts and pay for them with policies.

the third is to stabilize production and keep jobs, which will strengthen the employment scheduling guarantee mechanism of key enterprises such as medical materials production enterprises and daily necessities production enterprises, and support the adjustment of surplus and shortage of employment. According to the needs, we will develop a number of temporary posts such as disinfection and epidemic prevention, community service, etc., and strive to make willing migrant workers contribute to the fight against epidemic and supply in the places of employment. "It is also necessary to remind here that if workers are arranged to work overtime during the Spring Festival holiday, they should pay overtime wages according to law." Zhang Ying said.

Fourth, excellent service to retain people, which will provide "131" employment services for job seekers in need, namely, one career guidance, three suitable job information and one training program, and hold special recruitment with multiple frequencies and different industries. At the same time, for eligible unemployed people, unemployment insurance benefits and temporary living allowance will be paid in time to better meet the needs of local Chinese New Year workers.

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