Overtime on salary

Pious14

What is the law regarding working outside normal hours on a salary job?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

No overtime on salary. You'd usually have a bonus system so long as targets are hit.

Stheno

NO real law on it, especially if your contract has a clause stating that you may be required to work overtime as and when the company needs it.

The Working hours act is the only recourse, which forbides over an average of 48 hour weeks over a four month period

BreadnBuddha

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

No overtime on salary. You'd usually have a bonus system so long as targets are hit.

Nonsense.

Paid overtime or time in lieu often included in salaried employment contract terms, depending on the job function.

If not included, work on the basis that an hour or two per week, on occasion, is a reasonable amount. More than that needs to be provided for in an updated contract.

BreadnBuddha

BreadnBuddha wrote: »

Nonsense.

Paid overtime or time in lieu often included in salaried employment contract terms, depending on the job function.

If not included, work on the basis that an hour or two per week, on occasion, is a reasonable amount. More than that needs to be provided for in an updated contract.

Pious14 wrote: »

What is the law

It's not nonsense. There's no entitlement for working overtime when you're salaried. Yes there is often paid overtime but that is a different issue.

Mrs OBumble

BreadnBuddha wrote: »

Paid overtime or time in lieu often included in salaried employment contract terms, depending on the job function.

If not included, work on the basis that an hour or two per week, on occasion, is a reasonable amount. More than that needs to be provided for in an updated contract.

Only if you're in a particularly low-salaried job (eg accounts clerk) or one that has some specific out of hours or on-call components (eg some IT infrastructure roles).

For the rest of professional jobs, some hours in excess on the contracted ones without any extra reward are pretty much par for the course.

Manach

My understanding (based on a general reading of an employment law book) is there is not a requirement to pay OT per se, but can be so if there is a stipulation term agreed in the employment contract either by worker/union to this effect.

Slydice

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment_rights_and_conditions/hours_of_work/working_week.html

Overtime

Overtime is work done outside normal working hours.There is no statutory obligation on employers to pay employees for work completed in overtime. Many employers pay employees higher rates of pay for overtime. Your contract of employment should state if you are required to work overtime and the rates of pay if you are to be paid for it. Certain sectors of employment were covered by Employment Regulation Orders and Registered Employment Agreements and may have higher rates of pay for overtime.