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• valarauca1 12y ago
  Google's company culture is a lot like Japanese work culture. Lie about your hours because its more honorable to claim you did more work in less time. I've seen a lot of googlers put in 60-70 hour weeks and claim it was 40.
  • deelowe 12y ago
    For hourly and contract employees that work in operations? You sure about that?
• waps 12y ago
  They don't. It is not a requirement. But if you want your employees to do overtime, you have to pay them either 50% more or 100% more, depending on whether it's "just" overtime or overtime during a time when they wouldn't have to work at all (weekends, official holidays, ...). The very short, very inaccurate summary is, you get 50% for outside of hours (after 19h, weekends). You get another 50% for working on weekends. And you get 50% for working on official holidays. Meaning you get 3x your normal hourly wage for working after 19h on Easter or Christmas for example. Needless to say, companies don't want to pay this, and will lie and cheat to get out from under this. Problem is, if they get sued, the maximum penalty is 2 years' wage, paid out on the spot, and it's up to the employee to decide whether to continue working there or not (if you fire an employee, and put down as reason that you've lost a court case against them, that's likely to result in another 2 years pay for the employee).