Ukrainian legislation provides for higher payments if employees work overtime, but in reality it rarely happens. Many workers have to regularly put extra hours that they are not paid for.
How much do Ukrainians should earn for working overtime by law?
Ukrainian legislation provides for 5 or 6-day working week, Finance.ua reported.
By law, people should not be working more than 4 hours within 2 consecutive working days.
If an employee has to do some extra hours of work on direct instructions of the employers or with their knowledge, this is considered “overtime”.
The trick here is the wording. If the employee does some extra work without “direct instructions of the employers” or supposedly without their knowledge, then such work isn’t considered and paid for.
Thus, giving people too much to do and thus ensuring they are unable to complete the job within the allocated time, allows employers to avoid paying extra for the completion of the tasks. If the person leaves without completing the allocated jobs, then they open themselves to being fired.
Payments for legitimate overtime
- If a person’s wage is paid by hour, then he or she should earn twice as much.
- If a person is paid for the amount of production, then an extra payment in the size of the basic tariff (salary) for an employee of such qualification has to be paid for all the hours worked overtime.
Employers are not allowed to simply give a worker a day off in the lieu of overtime.
In total, working over the regular hours should not exceed 4 hours within 2 consecutive days, or 120 hours per year.
This is why, possibly, you rarely hear from Ukrainian women about payments for working extra hours, although many of them do. Especially is such industries as teaching or nursing, this is a regular practice. But they don’t get paid extra for all the hours of work they put, as they should be by law.
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