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Your salary is still on a contract for a certain number of hours per week. Any hours past that are unpaid in that regard and effectively reduce your salary.
by bluefirebrand 4y ago
Your salary is still on a contract for a certain number of hours per week.
Any hours past that are unpaid in that regard and effectively reduce your salary.
- lunaticlabs 4y agoIt's like that in the USA, where I used to live. I live in Germany now, and I am a salaried employee. The law here doesn't generally allow any non-remunerated work beyond 10%-15%, and your daily work hour average over a 6 month period cannot exceed 8 hours. Anything above that, and they have to pay my hourly rate times a multiplier depending on how far over or if they are weekend/nighttime hours. I believe they're also required to pay for "on-call" hours, whether you are actually called in or not, at a lesser rate. All of this is statutory, not specific to my contract. Not surprisingly, I'm no longer on the pager duty rotation.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI don't think that's true? I've never seen a Tech contract that specifies the Baseline hours.
- zabzonk 4y agopresumably you have never been a contractor?
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI have been but was paid hourly
- zabzonk 4y agoum, my point?
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI've never seen something that said you will be paid for an assumed 40 hour work week. Whenever I contract, there was actual accounting.
- Aeolun 4y agoI think that’s only true in the US. All my contracts in the Netherlands and Japan always specify the number of hours.
- astrange 4y agoMine said expected 40 hours a week last time I saw it. But getting RSU comp still means doing extra work may be valuable… if it's actually the right work.
- latency-guy2 4y agoYour salary is rated on a basis of working a certain number of hours per week on average as that is a standard that most people in society run by - that number is otherwise meaningless. Similar to how oil changes are rated between a driving distance or a change by date, or how your milk and bread has a sell by date. These numbers are guidelines that generally signal to people some amount of confidence in a product/service, but do not reflect the reality of use or worthiness.