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What benefits does heatstroke prevention give employees? Group purchase of heatstroke prevention and cooling food.

There is no need to pay high temperature allowance.

High temperature allowance is an allowance paid to workers when the employer arranges them to engage in outdoor operations in high temperature weather above 35℃ and cannot take effective measures to reduce the workplace temperature below 33℃. Maternity leave workers do not work in hot weather and high temperature environment, and do not enjoy high temperature allowance during maternity leave.

State Administration of Work Safety, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, All-China Federation of Trade Unions

Notice on printing and distributing the measures for the administration of heatstroke prevention and cooling measures

General Administration of Safety Supervision No.89 [20 12]

Seventeenth workers engaged in high temperature operation, enjoy post allowance according to law.

If the employing unit arranges laborers to engage in outdoor open-air operations in high-temperature weather above 35℃ and cannot take effective measures to reduce the workplace temperature below 33℃, it shall pay high-temperature allowance to the laborers and include it in the total wages. The standard of high temperature allowance shall be formulated by the provincial administrative department of human resources and social security in conjunction with relevant departments, and adjusted in time according to the social and economic development.