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Originally Posted by MMM
That means you have a set monthly pay, and you are not paid by the hour. Hence the "salary man" who works 12 hours a day. Doesn't matter how many hours you work, people on salary don't have overtime.
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Every time I hear someone say this it makes me cringe.
It`s simply NOT correct.
A salary is a set amount of pay for a set number of hours of work each month. The standard is 8 hours of work a day on every workday for the length of the month. Generally around 170 hours, depending on the month. The salary is SET pay for every month - so even if there is a month full of holidays where you are only working 120 hours for the month - you`re still going to be paid the exact same amount as the month where there were 31 days and no holidays.
Anything over the set hours is indeed
overtime. It is illegal to ask an employee to work over the set salaried hours for free. They must be paid for it.
There is nothing against an employee thinking that working for free might impress a boss or get them a salary raise based on dedication, etc - So in the end working free overtime is an
employee choice. (And depending on the industry will actually do the opposite of impressing superiors...)
Working a salaried job is much better in the long run than a "by the hour" job, as your pay is guaranteed even if there is no work for a month. You will still be paid that set salary amount even if the boss calls it a day and lets everyone go home at lunch for a few weeks. (Which happens in some industries during slow periods.)
Salary or not has absolutely nothing to do with overtime.
The normal workday is around 10 hours - 8 hours of work, 1 hour for lunch, and 30 minutes before and after work for various things. When there is a lot of work, it can become much much longer. But anything above the normal workday is considered overtime.
ETA; Ack, I didn`t notice the year on that comment when I replied. Ouch.