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Well, in the UK there's a waiver you can sign that lets you work more than 48 hours a week. It's more beneficial to the employer imo, but people who want a lot
by jotm 8y ago
Well, in the UK there's a waiver you can sign that lets you work more than 48 hours a week. It's more beneficial to the employer imo, but people who want a lot of overtime can actually get it. I just wonder if it's stricter in Germany - i.e. you can work 40hrs/week and that's absolutely it.
- namibj 8y agoIt'r rather strict. The 10h/day limit can only really be breached if there is something on fire (well, a network counts too), which has a great immediate risk to the company, or if human life is acutely at risk.
- froh 8y agoAccording to the law the week is Monday through Saturday, 6*8=48... We often tend to forget that we fought hard for the five day week. So while it's common for qualified jobs to have a 40h/WK contract, high workload opens the door to extend the week to 6 days, "Saturday work". Again for qualified jobs you better compensate your people well for that... For the floating average of 8h per day the rules then reference your usual regular work week. So if you are on a 5 day contract (like most people these days), that's where the 40h week comes from. For those amongst us who regularly do 6 days, 48h is perfectly legal in Germany. And temporarily those numbers go up to 50/60h weeks. The floating mean has to go down to 40/48 though. Iirc within a 6 month period, which is not law but usual (court) reading of the law.
- namibj 8y agoMy information was 3 Months, unless a collective bargaining agreement (Tarifvertrag) says otherwise.