Overtime Work
By Graceekwenx
@Graceekwenx (3160)
Philippines
9 responses
@fabsprecious (1565)
• United States
20 Oct 11
In my personal experience, my employer basically authorizes overtime, when there is a special project going on, or when we are at the end of our fiscal year meaning that everything needs to be paid and processed in order to meet our deadline. I would say that overtime is probably authorized or classified when special projects are needed and/or a deadline needs to be meet, or may there are certain jobs that can't be completed during working hours. I guess it also depends on the line of work you are in.
@Graceekwenx (3160)
• Philippines
21 Oct 11
Hello Fabs! How are you? Here in our office, they dont usually pay you for overtime when you exceed the working hours if you are doing your routine work. If you have gone beyond the normal working hours due to some special project, then one gets eligible for overtime pay. The employer's explanation for this, how will they know that we are doing our work during office work? For all you know, it can even be sign of inefficiency of the employee on why they exceed the normal working hours while the others can accomplish the same work done in the usual working hours. I for one does overtime work as there are still many stuff to do. This goes the same for my other officemates. Am I being inefficient? eeeww ouchie... Even so, we dont charge our employer overtime pay. We just want to get things done.
Furthermore, supervisors and higher management here are no longer eligible for overtime pay.
@fabsprecious (1565)
• United States
24 Oct 11
My employer has also gotten a lot stricter when it comes to overtime. Any authorized overtime must have prior approval, or it must be a project that has to be accomplished as soon as possible and get be done during normal business hours.
But you do bring up a valid point sometime it can be because of inefficiency, but unfortunately for me that wasn't the case. When I first started my work load was pretty high, and sometimes may about once a week I would stay an hour or two just to finish the work load for the week, but my supervisor was aware of my situation and always authorized it. He knew that I was always working and doing my very best to try and get everything completed on a timely manner. That is sometimes still the case, but since budget is tight, there isn't any overtime anymore, so I just try and do the best I can, especially since we are also a bit short staff. I can't kill myself, I do the best I can with the time I have and they all know I do. I have been with the company for 11 years.
@ram_cv (16513)
• India
29 Oct 11
I work in the Indian IT industry. In this industry terms such as Overtime and Compensatory Leaves don't exist. You are supposed to work longer hours and also work from home on your time for the company by default. So really overtime in this industry means nothing, but your required working hours. :)
Cheers!
Ram
@my_january (967)
• Philippines
28 Oct 11
Hi Graceekwenx! 
In my case, my contract states that the company requires me to render 40hrs a week. Meaning to say that they expect me to be productive 8 hrs a day. Now, if you are requested to work for additional hours, more than what was stated in your contract, it is already overtime. Other than that, if the company requires you to work on your rest days for special project, again, you will render additional hours on top of your contractual obligations, that is still overtime. I hope this helps.
In my case, my contract states that the company requires me to render 40hrs a week. Meaning to say that they expect me to be productive 8 hrs a day. Now, if you are requested to work for additional hours, more than what was stated in your contract, it is already overtime. Other than that, if the company requires you to work on your rest days for special project, again, you will render additional hours on top of your contractual obligations, that is still overtime. I hope this helps. 
@TeamCholent (2832)
• United States
24 Oct 11
It does depend on your employee. I know at our company we have a policy of no over-time unless approved by management. If approved it would be double ones regular hourly rate. Most of the time if workers want to put in extra we will allow them to miss a little time later on in the same pay period. I would ask your boss to clarify this for you as you don't to put in the extra effort to find out the pay won't be as rewarding as you had hoped.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
24 Oct 11
In our labor code, overtime is defined as the time you work beyond your allotted working hours. If your boss assigned you a job different from your job description then, under the law a person should be compensated for that job plus his salary that he is actually assigned to.
@wongchoiyee (7413)
• Malaysia
20 Oct 11
Its the same for both whether you need to finish a project or stay late but there must be compensation for you or else you will feel cheated. If you are willing to stay to finish your own work then its not overtime but your own effort to do the work. I hope I clarify it for you, grace!
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
20 Oct 11
Overtime here is classified when one exceeds the normal routine schedules hours. If one is an hourly employee they get paid time in a half for each additional 15 minutes they work beyond their 40 hours. If they are a salary employee then they do not get additional earnings.
@vasumathi (436)
• India
20 Oct 11
Overtime can be defined in two different ways. Overtime done for extra income is the first type. secondly it can be because we could not complete the work in defined time.
