the high temperature allowance is RMB 11 per person per day. According to the regulations of the state, if the employer arranges workers to work in the open air in high temperature weather (the maximum daily temperature is above 35 degrees) and cannot take effective measures to reduce the workplace temperature below 33 degrees, it shall pay high temperature subsidies to the workers. Those who can receive the high-temperature allowance must be employees working at high temperatures, including construction workers, bus drivers without air conditioning, and outdoor sanitation workers. High temperature allowance is not available to every worker. Workers who work in the open air in hot weather and cannot take effective measures to reduce the workplace temperature below 33 degrees can get high temperature allowance.

Legal basis: Article 7 of the Measures for the Administration of Heatstroke Prevention and Cooling

The employer shall implement the following labor protection measures for high-temperature operations:

(1) Give priority to the adoption of new technologies, new processes, new materials and new equipment that are conducive to controlling high temperature, and reduce or eliminate high-temperature hazards from the source. Comprehensive control measures should be taken to meet the requirements of national occupational health standards for high temperature hazards that cannot be completely eliminated in the production process.

(2) The construction project with high-temperature occupational hazards shall ensure that its design meets the relevant national occupational health standards and health requirements, and the high-temperature protection facilities shall be designed, constructed and put into production and use at the same time as the main project.

(3) The employing unit with high-temperature occupational hazards shall carry out daily high-temperature monitoring by special personnel, and carry out detection and evaluation of occupational hazard factors in accordance with relevant regulations.

(4) The employing unit shall, in accordance with the relevant regulations, organize occupational health examinations for workers exposed to high temperature hazards before, during and after taking up their posts, store the examination results in occupational health monitoring files and inform the workers in writing. The expenses for occupational health examination shall be borne by the employer.

(5) The employing unit shall not arrange pregnant female workers and underage workers to work in high-temperature workplaces above Grade III in Classification of Occupational Hazards in Workplaces Part 3: High Temperature (GBZ/T229.3).