Overtime is made up of the additional time that a worker dedicates to his or her work activity beyond his or her conventional schedule.
Overtime , also called overtime , is the additional time an employee spends on work activities beyond their normal hours. According to labor law , these hours must be paid more than conventional hours.
The working day is made up of the number of hours that a person must work per day according to their contract conditions. Generally, this day consists of eight hours. If an individual who must work eight hours ends up dedicating ten hours to his duties, he will have worked two extra hours that day.
Example of overtime
Suppose that an administrative employee works from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Monday to Friday, with one hour off for lunch (that is, he works eight hours per day). If, in a certain week, your boss asks you to stay in the office until 7 p.m., you will accumulate one extra hour per day: five extra hours at the end of the week . These five extra hours must be reflected in your salary .
The form of payment for overtime depends on each country according to legislation and labor agreements. In some regions, overtime is paid at an additional 50% . In this way, if a worker charges $50 per hour , the extra hour will be charged $75 .
Returning to the previous example with these values , the administrative employee in question must charge an additional amount of $375 for the five overtime hours he worked in a week. This money, of course, will be added to what you receive for carrying out your usual activities.
By working overtime, the person receives additional money to their usual salary.
Other considerations
In addition to all of the above, we cannot ignore another series of very important data on overtime, among which are the following:
-There are basically two types of overtime: overtime due to force majeure, which must be carried out when urgent and extraordinary damages occur that require preventing or repairing accidents, and structural overtime. The latter are identified because they are those that need to be carried out in the face of unforeseen situations, "work peaks" and structural circumstances related to the company's activity.
-In the event that urgent and extraordinary damages occur, as we mentioned in the previous point, the company can force its employees to work overtime. In other cases, these can never be mandatory.
-The different labor laws of each country establish the maximum number of overtime hours that a worker can work throughout a week. Exactly this limit refers to what are structural overtime, since force majeure overtime is not limited in any way by law given its nature.
-It is important to know in addition to everything indicated that there are a series of employees who are prohibited from working overtime. We are referring to those who have maternity or paternity leave or those who work their shifts at night, for example.