Cost of living and Overtime Pay

bharat2087 New member

8POSTS

8 years ago

Greetings to all forum members, I have got an offer in a retail organization as a sales associate the salary being offered is 600 BHD is it good enough to live in Manama and save money to send back home I am single and does Bahrain have an policy for overtime pay, if yes then how is it calculated given the salary is 600 BHD. Thanks in advance to all the members.

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XTang Bahrain/UAE/KSA Expert

11978POSTS

8 years ago

Yes and no.

As per law, overtime is paid as follows:

Daytime hours: Hourly wage plus 25% of hourly wage per hour worked
Night time hours:聽 Hourly wage plus 50% of hourly wage per hour worked
Holidays:聽 Hourly wage plus 150% of hourly wage per hour worked

Effective working hours cannot exceed more than 10 hours a day and the worker cannot be present at the premises for more than 11.聽 So that basically means that the maximum overtime you can get is 2 or 3 hours a day (legally).

As far as the no part is concerned, a company can set its policies in a way to exclude certain categories from being eligible for overtime.聽 General rule of thumb is that shift based production employees, cleaning staff and drivers are entitled for overtime whereas the rest are not.聽聽This varies company to company and also unionised set ups are more likely to get overtime than non-unionised.

On the salary, you can browse the threads to get an idea about cost of living.聽 It really depends on your lifestyle.

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logicalindian Bahrain Expert

3515POSTS

8 years ago

Following posts should give you an idea about the cost of living

/forum/viewtopic.php?id=745829 : cost of living 2018
聽 : Definitive Guide to Bahrain for New Expats
: cost of living
: cost of living area wise

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mukeshnegi293 New member

3POSTS

2 years ago

If a company takes a fixed overtime of 3 hours, then what should be its overtime pay

If the staff does not want to work overtime, can the company force them to work overtime?

logicalindian Bahrain Expert

3515POSTS

2 years ago

Read the contract which you have signed, if there are no terms mentioned for over time then you can complain at the Expat protection centre (Google for more details)