several funny but true experiences

I heard my Belgian friend said she often need to work overtime, I thought work overtime is the patent only in Asia, so I was wrong.

Several true experiences,

Firstly, my japanese company ask employees to work overtime at least 15 hours every month, the paid is rather bad.

Secondly, my korean company ask employees to work overtime voluntarily from 17:30 to 19:30, no supper supplied btw, all koreans have. The funnest is they ask people come to company on Saturday morning, you could come back before 13:00, because there is job fair every saturday, they do not want people come there.

Thirdly, the famous taiwan company, foxconn...they give workers very low pay, but higher paid for people who willing to work overtime, people need money so willing to sacrifice their spare time for it.

The last one, my chinese company, we come back to home before 16:30, never work overtime or work on saturday. The paid is higher than all of them above. I was having nice memory when I was working there.

In Italy there is not a unique regulation. Every contract has its specific rules and when you sign it you should be happy about every point. 

In my case I think that if you work overtime everyday without being paid it is not fair, but if you want a career you should demonstrate attitude to hard working and passion for your job. If you stay all the afternoon looking at the clock, maybe you have to change job... :)

I believe we should evaluate the money we will be paid & the  disadvantages... & accept the overtime work when ever optimum

Some people work a lot of overtime because they are valuable and needed. I am lucky to be one of those people at my job. I am also fortunate in that they do pay, in a sense, for extra hours worked here. Some places will try to get people to work extra for nothing.

What is unfortunate is that they tend to like to pay people in what they call "comp time" before they will pay them in cash. Comp time is like paid vacation time. The thing is, if you are the kind of person who is earning this comp time, then you are probably the kind of employee who does not have a lot of opportunities to use that time. At my job the limit of the amount of comp time a person can earn is 160 hours. I have been at that limit for many years. One day I will leave and then they will have to pay me for these hours, but until then they are just a tease.

In some jobs, where it makes sense to work overtime (e.g. an ambulance driver can't just get off the car at 17:00), it is acceptable. Of course, it should be paid accordingly and not occur very often.

It is a common secret that in many companies you are asked to work overtime without extra payment or benefits other than keeping your job. When an employee is very willing to accept overtime, it is very probable that they're doing a parallel job using the company's ressources.

I believe frequent requests for overtime, from both the employee and the management, are telltale signs of bad time management, bad task delegation, bad planning of human ressources and of a bad job, hastily done.