Odisha's Labour & ESI Department is reported to issue an annual seasonal restriction on outdoor work between 11:00 and 15:00 from 1 April to 15 June, with a carve-out for essential services alongside cool-water, shade and ORS provision. THE PRIMARY ORDER HAS NEVER BEEN LOCATED. Every value rests on Odisha news reporting of a departmental communication; no memo or letter number is cited by any source. A later project scan reached the department's own site and judged the circular an advisory with no numeric temperature trigger and no cited statutory basis, concluding that Odisha should have no engine at all. This engine therefore encodes no temperature trigger, claims no statutory force, never asserts stop-work, and never enters the work/rest composite.
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This rule has no numeric trigger the calculator evaluates — it states duties and control measures rather than a threshold a reading can be checked against. Its measures are listed below.
No standalone formula is published for this standard; see programmable logic and parameters below.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
seasonStartMonth | 4 |
seasonStartDay | 1 |
seasonEndMonth | 6 |
seasonEndDay | 15 |
restrictionStartHour | 11 |
restrictionEndHour | 15 |
These are the 2026 instance as REPORTED BY NEWS OUTLETS, not read from an order. They must be re-verified every season, and the underlying instrument must be located before this engine is relied on at all. No temperature threshold appears here because none was ever reported — the instrument is a calendar and clock restriction.
The reported essential-services carve-out is NOT encoded: no source described its scope precisely enough to gate on, and guessing at an exemption would be worse than omitting it, since an unencoded exemption makes the engine more conservative rather than less.
Programmable logic
Exempt when outdoor is explicitly false. Outside the reported 1 April – 15 June window, reports that the seasonal period does not apply. Inside it, reports whether the supplied shift or time falls within the reported 11:00–15:00 restriction window. Crucially it sets `restricted`, NOT `stopWork`: stopWork is pinned false in every branch.
Asserting a stop-work obligation would claim more than press reporting of an advisory can support, and a stop-work assertion is exactly the kind of output that changes someone's working day. Structurally this mirrors kerala_labour_heat_order — same country, same department type, same seasonal-window-plus-daily-window shape — but Kerala's rests on a Government Order under the Minimum Wages Act and is classified regulation/verified, where this rests on press reporting alone and is classified source_needs_verification/unverified.
Required inputs: date
Optional inputs: outdoor, shiftStart, shiftEnd, time
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