Overtime
Overtime is something with which we are all familiar. However, it may interest you to read that employees have no right to extra pay for working extra hours; nor is there a minimum amount of overtime pay, as long as the employee’s average pay rate doesn’t fall below minimum wage.
One possible alternative to overtime payment is offering time off in lieu, which allows the employee to take as many hours off as they have worked extra. The specific details of when time can be taken off vary from company to company. Employees only have to work overtime if their employment contract states that they have to, though even then they can refuse to do so if it will take their working hours above 48 per week. Exactly what counts as overtime should be outlined in the employee’s contract however; if the employment contract includes Sunday working hours, for example, then working on a Sunday will not count as working overtime.
Part time workers will usually only be paid overtime when they work antisocial hours for which full time staff would receive extra pay, longer hours than a full time worker or longer hours than are outlined in their employment contract.
