Does your company provide 高温补贴？

[my3rdlang]

Just out of curiosity, does your company give you an allowance for high temperatures (高温补贴)? Is it required in the province you work at? During what months?

[Chinssn]

It really depends on what type of the company you're working for. Usually, this is an additional bounus in Chinese government and state owned enterprises.

[BrandeX]

More of a construction workers, etc. type thing, no? I certainly wouldn't work anywhere w/o AC anyway.

[Peiruo]

听说, a couple of interesting points on this. I am told that under labor regulations employers are bound to pay factory workers higher wages when the temperature is very high (above 40deg celcius) and some factories are even required to close down when things get that hot.

I heard a rumor however, that it will never officially get that hot in beijing, since official records of temperatures are published by the government, and its not in the government's economic interests for the temperature to reach above 40 degrees.

Ie. although personal thermometers show the temperature as being 41 degrees, official records rarely reach above 36.

I love a good CCP conspiracy theory.

[xianu]

Peiruo - I have actually heard that 40 degree rule, too. I thought somehow it was a government regulation that should the temperatures top 40C, then people don't have to go to work, and so the government never allows the forecasters to say it will reach 40. This was from grad students at Shaanxi normal university. I had remarked that I thought it was strange that it said 39 today and was 39 yesterday, but yesterday felt much hotter. does anyone know if this is true and for whom?

[skylee]

I heard the same in Xinjiang. The local guide told us that even in Xinjiang the official temperature in summer almost never reached 40 degrees for similar reason (people would not need to go to work). ;)

[xiaocai]

My dad's company did give. I had days off when I was in primary and secondary schools when the weather was too hot. And they do report and record temperatures over 40˚C, see here.

[my3rdlang]

Thanks for the replies!

You are right chinssn, I've heard that those who get high temperature subsidies usually work for Chinese government and state owned enterprises.