Questions tagged [overtime]
Overtime is time spent working that goes above and beyond the number of hours required to be at the workplace for a given time period.
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Overtime hours allocated
I started work in Feb 2021 on Bank hours only. During this time, I was asked to work 9 hours on a permanent basis with no contract.
In May that year I was given a 30hr contract not to include the 9hrs....
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Should I be more accomodating than usual during my probation period or should I try to work as if I'm not on the probation period? [closed]
I am starting a new job with a probation period. What I wanted to know was: Should I be more accommodating than usual during my probation period or should I try to work as if I'm not on the probation ...
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How to tactfully decline overtime caused by bad decisions?
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I've been hired as a senior software engineer in a small team to support an existing project where the coding is done by employees without software engineering background and without IT ...
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How to preserve professionalism in a difficult environment
I work as software engineer in a pretty young company (5 years old) and I'm making a lot of errors that can ruin my career.
Until some months ago everything was great: the compensation is just ok. We ...
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How should I deal with "online" status competition at work?
Some of my coworkers seem to keep their online status as available until late at night, even when they are not working. I suspect they use some tricks to prevent their computer from going to sleep ...
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How to deal with extra work pressure from the manager
Background: Time flexibility in a company is very important to me. In my case, I am a person that has no troubles in waking up earlier, so I made clear in my interview if it was going to be a problem ...
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What benefit does an employer derive from hiring employees as salaried nonexempt?
I can see why employers might hire hourly employees - you pay employees for the amount of time they spend working. Straightforward. Likewise, salaried exempt makes sense - you pay employees a fixed ...
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When will overtime be compensated after you leave a company in Germany?
Until end of 2022 I worked for a company in Germany for quite some time, until I sent my resignation letter and decided to move on.
My contract was a "Tarifvertrag", which regulated also the ...
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Politely and professionally declining overtime
I've been working as a contractor at a large company for three months. I'm the most seasoned developer in a small team, and so far it's been a good relationship.
However, as of a couple of weeks ago, ...
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Should I tell my boss that I am doing a crazy amount of overtime?
I work at a big tech company as an individual contributor. We are approaching an important launch where I'm playing a key role. There is no strict deadline, but I'd like to make sure it's finished ...
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To which day is a nightshift attributed? [closed]
Suppose one works the nightshift from Tuesday 10 PM to Wednesday 6 AM.
Would this be considered Tuesdays work or Wednesdays work?
Is the nightshift attributed to the day it starts, or to the day it ...
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Should overtime be attributed to the day the shift started in case of a nightshift? [duplicate]
I want users to be able to register their actual hours of work and calculate from the difference to their due hours of work their overtime. For a day job this is just straight forward.
If somebody ...
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Is it wrong to manage my time in such a way that I don't have to work past 5:00 PM?
I am exempt salaried in the USA, working from home. My work hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with an hour lunch from noon to 1:00 PM. While I complete all my tasks on time and receive exceptional reviews, ...
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The JD for software engineer says "Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary"
I recently saw a job description for a senior software developer position says "Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary."
This job ...
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Is it legal for my company to ask me to do unpaid overtime?
Let's say I am a full-time employee with an employment contract stating that I have a 38-hour work week.
Is it legal for my employer to present another document that extends the working hours? Is ...
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Can my company stop me from working overtime?
I have been doing the same overtime for several years, my company now want to stop me from doing this and let other people do it who earn less money. Can they do this?
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Does a 7 day workweek hurt productivity?
There are many articles claiming that a shorter workweek (4 days) has no productivity loss vs a 5 day work week or it's a net positive for the company.
However, in the sector that I work, it's more ...
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How to convey staffing issues to burnout-causing boss?
I have been working for a small business for 15 years on a part-time basis. Over the years I have seen a considerable turnover of staff, some of which I believe has been down to my boss (business ...
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How to preemptively tell employer what you expect to get paid when there's potential for confusion/miscalculations
I recently started working for a new employer. I get paid by the hour and the work hours are not always consistent. A job lasted a lot longer than expected and in fact needed to be finished on a day ...
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Coworkers treating me differently for being the only one not doing free overtime
All of my coworkers are happy to "hop online" for a meeting at 7pm or work on something over the weekend. They aren't being asked by our managers to do this and there's no extra pay, they ...
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Almost at end of probationary... ask for overtime?
I started my current job around 5 months ago and my probationary is due to end in a few days. I have a review scheduled with my boss once it's complete.
Would this be a good time to put myself forward ...
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Should I keep a Log of the Hours I do?
I was fired 2 weeks ago from a startup and one of the reasons was that 'this isn't a 9-5 job, we are trying to do something nobody has ever done before and I don't think you're at that stage in your ...
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Got fired for not working enough overtime, just before the end of probation. What should I do? [closed]
I'm working for a startup in Germany where all the senior employees work 10-12+ hours per day. I started off like that too because it felt awkward to leave after 8/9hours but after 3 months I stopped ...
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Compensation for working overtime on Saturdays
I work in an American infrastructure firm based in India. We work on both American and Indian projects. My Indian client works on Saturday while our company does not. Because of the clients, I also ...
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How does a salaried worker stop overtime without seeming unproductive in a WFH environment?
Summary: I am salaried employee regularly working 15 extra hours (over 40hr/week of my contract) every week without overtime pay. I work from home (WFH). I want to decrease amount of unpaid overtime ...
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How To Deal With (Possible) Accounting Error
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The place I work at has an overtime policy so that anyone who works outside of their assigned hours, gets paid more for each additional hour. This company has a lot of bad managers and a ...
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Found out I don't make overtime pay - would it be taboo to charge for hours over 40 without permission? [closed]
I'm three months in as a tech lead for a relatively small (~100 people) but successful and grounded consulting company in a major U.S. city. Due to poor requirements gathering coupled with ...
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How can I discourage my new hire from working such long hours?
I've recently hired a new mid-level developer (not a junior but not a senior yet) and have been really impressed with their performance. My only complaint about them is that I get work-related emails ...
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As a manager, should I support employees who work during the weekend?
An employee I manage has started working on weekends. They have a temporary position, and probably want to make a good impression to have a chance of getting hired permanently. Higher-ups have asked ...
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How to handle a colleague that can't handle stress and makes poor decisions but can work hard
About 6 months ago we hired a developer that came straight from university. He's smart, works hard and seems to create quality code. The first couple of months I acted as a buffer between management ...
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Are there any countries where a company can lawfully claim owning you 100% of the time, even outside proper working hours? [closed]
Recently it was reported IBM forced one of its employees to remove him or herself from the maintainers list of a open-source driver, with the following allegation:
"As an IBM employee, you are ...
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How to handle hourly employee taking unauthorized overtime?
I have a hourly employee in Texas who has taken to milking the time clock: the employee will stay a few minutes late to complete a document that came in towards the end of their workday, or they were ...
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Intentional company falsehood in job description causing tension with boss [closed]
I got a job at a big name Managed Service Provider (basically IT mercenaries). I was skeptical of MSP work at first but my buddy works on a different team at this office and really likes it, so he put ...
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My girlfriend and her colleagues are in a toxic work environment. What can I do?
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My girlfriend is a resident (medical doctor) in a large institution in Italy. She has some 7-8 other colleagues, and all of them are exploited by their superior to do all the hard ...
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Why company policies don't guarantee work-life-balance?
The adoption of the trend called on-call is high among software companies where they expect employees to work beyond office-hours for things like urgent customer issues, pipeline failures, etc. This ...
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How to refuse constant outside-office-hours meetings politely? [closed]
We are always required to attend meetings outside office hours without any compensation.
Usually, our employers are unwilling to convene meetings during office hours because it would reduce our ...
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If a babysitter arrives before the agreed time, should we pay extra?
Suppose we tell our babysitter to arrive at 8:00 pm, and she arrives at 7:30 pm.
This is extra half an hour, which is quite meaningful.
Are we expected to pay for this extra time that we never asked ...
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Changing the culture of overtime to efficiency
I work at a very young start-up company. We have had turn-over rates (mass resignation of staff, thrice) in the past but changes in the system have led to a more a stable employee retention and better ...
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I often get calls to help fix some problems at customer sites in non-working hours - normal?
My employer develops software for small business. The competition is fierce and survival is paramount for us. I often get call at 9 or 10 at night, sometimes at weekend from the customer support team, ...
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Asked to work on weekend vs overtime
This just happened to where I work and I need some feedback before I discuss it.
The project I currently work on is slipping and members of the team were requested to work overtime - paid overtime ...
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Can my employer fire me for notifying them of my unpaid overtime hours?
New boss and department structure at work, they passed me over for promotion and unofficially demoted me by creating new positions above me, taking responsibilities away and pushing me down further ...
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"I'm not telling you to work nights and weekends, but I am expecting that to happen" - what does this mean?
So my manager told me this morning "I'm not telling you to work nights and weekends, but I am expecting that that will happen". I asked her what she meant by that and she said "I won't ...
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How to tell management I want an enhanced overtime rate or I'm not doing extra hours
I work part time in sales in the UK. 31 hours a week (my wife works nights so I have to be there for childcare) and generally these are the hours I do although sometimes to help out with annual leave,...
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How does overtime work for hourly contractors? [closed]
As an hourly contractor how does overtime typically work? I have been keeping under the 8hrs/day, but due to university commitments will be shifting a significant portion of my hours onto the weekends ...
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Options for UK employee being overworked without pay
I have succeeded at getting what I thought to be a great job after a grueling three-stage interview. I work with nice people doing engaging and creative work. The pay is not great but its above ...
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Holiday Pay at Basic rate when regular overtime and higher rate usually paid
I have a friend who works in the service industry and she as standard works anti-social hours (which increases her hourly rate by 50p) and also despite being contracted to do 24 hours per week, she is ...
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I feel frustrated working for my boss who never listens to me
My boss keeps talking his way into making me work more. He calls me many times on a Sunday when it's a holiday. I have repeatedly told him not to call me after work hours but still he keeps calling me....
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Adding time to learn in overtime
Recently I was given a task, rather I choose to do it as no one else was doing it and I had no idea how to do it but that is how I.T. works. Overtime was approved and I spend a weekend (a few hours) ...
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Expectation of working very long hours constantly
I have a problem finding my way in corporate settings.
I now started a new job a few months ago. I soon discovered that the team I'm managing is massively understaffed - in a team of 4 people we are ...
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How should I ask about work/life balance during an Interview?
I am interviewing for a company later today that has the following listed under Expectations on their career website:
Some flexibility in a 40-hour work week
In addition, their job descriptions ...
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