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Sadly it feels that overtime has been eliminated from the industry. Every contract I've ever signed (and this is in the supposedly more worker-friendly EU) has
by NeoTar 3y ago
Sadly it feels that overtime has been eliminated from the industry. Every contract I've ever signed (and this is in the supposedly more worker-friendly EU) has had text along the lines of 'Your working hours are 40h a week. Occasionally you may be required to work more. Overtime is not compensated.'
The best I've had in a workplace is an informal policy of time-off-in-lieu for extra hours worked.
- em-bee 3y agois not compensating overtime even legal anywhere in the EU?
- hjadal 3y agoIt is in Denmark, my contract also states that I work 40 hours a week with uncompensated overtime. The only rules creating a cap on my working hours are the EU's, with 48 hours per week on average in a 4 month period.
- NeoTar 3y agoFrom what the Wikipedia page of Overtime says about the EU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtime#European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtime#European_Union) it seems that the laws are very concerned with working hours, but have nothing to say about overtime being required to be paid or not.