Was it actually applied? I find work in Europe had more social breaks during the day, but my 35h schedule (working 40 and getting paid catch-up days off to be

Was it actually applied? I find work in Europe had more social breaks during the day, but my 35h schedule (working 40 and getting paid catch-up days off to be used monthly) still ended up looking like 70h weeks reported as 40 with no extra catch-up days and no overtime pay. Contrast to Canada, my 40h week does average to 40h and if I do overtime it is paid (provided I get it approved ahead of time) and I get to take that back as unpaid time off later. Though I am told to report my real hours in my timesheet provided they are 8h per day. So not my real hours. A lot of this comes from being salaried vs. hourly, but I'm not really hourly other than on paper. As salaried I was expected to do a lot more unpaid overtime though under the guise of flexibility. Oddly the flexibility was rarely in my favor :p