Timeline for What does "salaried" vs. "hourly" mean in a European (?) context?
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| Apr 5, 2023 at 1:03 | comment | added | Aeolun | @TooTea 0-hour contracts are essentially a contract in which you are only paid overtime, because all hours above the default (0) you work are considered overtime. I don't think that's inconsistent with what I wrote above? Anyhow, just the fact that I do not know of a contract in Europe that works a certain way doesn't mean it doesn't exist. | |
| Apr 4, 2023 at 18:53 | comment | added | cbeleites | @O.R.Mapper: In Germany, the compensation by free time doesn't need to be mentioned in the contract since German labour law basically says that free time is the preferred way to compensate for overtime, and in the "default" setting payments will only happen if this compensation is not possible (e.g. you give notice but have too much holidays plus overtime left for the notice period). | |
| Apr 4, 2023 at 11:51 | comment | added | TooTea | Careful there with the sweeping generalizations. Europe is fairly big and diverse. For example, in Czechia even formally "salaried" people typically have their monthly pay calculated using an hourly rate, so the exact amount they get every month fluctuates depending on the number of workdays in each month. I'm sure there are other countries with similarly arcane systems. And as Abigail correctly notes, even the country listed in your profile (NL) does have contracts that work as "hourly". | |
| Apr 3, 2023 at 16:15 | comment | added | Abigail | The Netherlands has something called a "Zero-hour" contract. Which more or less acts as an "on call" or "short notice" contract: you work X hours whenever your employer needs you for X hours. This has some advantages for some groups of people (say women who're willing to work a few hours while their kids are at school), but has lots of potential for abuse. Which is why the government is going to make it much harder to create such contracts. | |
| Apr 3, 2023 at 7:39 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "Contracts for a fixed-time, or unrestricted duration are always ..." - as I've clarified in the comments, that is actually what applies, even though the compesnation with flextime is not explicitly mentioned in my contract and I may not be able to make use of it in exceptionally dire situations. I will edit the question accordingly. | |
| Apr 3, 2023 at 7:27 | history | answered | Aeolun | CC BY-SA 4.0 |