IcaroRibeiro said:
Is it even legal? |
I guess it depends on the country. But generally, in one way or another, overtime must be retributed. It can be paid with money (and normally extra hours are worth more than regular hours), or it can be retributed with days off equivalent to the total hours of overtime.
Also, overtime is generally optional. Nobody can make you put extra hours if you don't want. There are a few exceptions, like if they are pacted between the worker and the employer or if they are included in the company's collective agreement... Or cases of natural catastrophes. If... I don't know... Some heavy rains flooded your workplace, the boss can make you put extra hours in order to be able to get the company back on track.
Also, it should be noted that overtime cannot exceed a certain number of hours a year, and hours have to be distributed in a certain way for the week, because a worker normally cannot work more than X hours a week.
The problem is... From what I can gather, since 2013, Poland (which is where CD Projekt comes from) has become a very shitty country to work in. Because they changed how overtime works, companies can make you work a crap ton of extra hours for a very long period of time, make them pass as extraordinary in order to make you not be able to deny... And then when everything is said and done and you are half dead (so to speak), they give you days off.
