"WPS helps reduce hours long duty of workers", 29 Mar 2017

The Wage Protection System (WPS), successfully implemented by the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs has forced employers to stop the practice of long overtime working hours, which leaves workers exhausted at the end of the day, say industry sources. Several companies have been forced to hire additional workers to reduce the hours-long overtime work, following some provisions in the Labour Law that have restricted regular work hours at maximum eight hours and overtime work at maximum two hours. “WPS requires companies to submit payment sheet in detail including wages and overtimes of their workers on monthly basis in a very transparent way,” manger of a construction company told The Peninsula. “No company could dare to tamper with the payment sheets, else, they would be caught by the system. The companies are afraid that they could be black listed banning them to recruit new workers."...The employers told The Peninsula that they noticed significant improvement in the productivity of labourers due to cut of overtime duty and mandatory weekly rest...Workers expressed their satisfation over the new move of the companies.