Unpaid overtime?

[ThatNattyPlayer]

Anyone works working for a company, larger or smaller, do you get paid for any overtime you do?
my role is reliant on me working extra hours before and after my usual hours, weekends and sometimes when I’m on annual leave, I used to be paid for it but now the company has put a blanket ban on all overtime payments
AIBU to tell them to piss off
or is this standard now?

I assume that your job is not life or death, you need to start saying no, if someone has to wait for something then they have to wait. If it’s that important the company would have set up cover for your annual leave and weekends.

Go in and talk about it. You are on a salary so you need to clarify with boss what is expected and what you can manage. Fair, to me, would be TOIL for extra hours worked and to have an understanding that you will only check your lap top every second day when on holidays and once per day on the weekends to cater for emergencies.

I’m actually due in the office today for a meeting about it

Fair is giving up annual leave?

in no world is that or should that be acceptable

How did it go @ThatNattyPlayer?

Op! Don’t answer to ur phone or turn it off. Request a work phone and block work people from personal phone - you don’t have to share your personal phone or use it for work

laptop doesn’t come home or go on holiday

you need to stop

Your company sounds awful!! The world will not end if you put your phone on "do not disturb" during your lunch break and don't check your emails on holiday. Just say you're going to a place with no reception. I worked with equity partners in some of the largest law firms in the world and most of them are unavailable when on holiday. The world doesn't end. If there's a crisis someone else just has to deal with it.

Depends on your contract. If you are paid hourly, it should be paid (assuming it is authorised).
If you’re salaried, you’re paid to do the job regardless of how many hours that takes. Ideally, the hours ebb and flow - sometimes you need to do more than standard, sometimes the work is less pressured and you can work fewer.

I am now on a salary, rather than hourly wage, and t&c’s that say I am available to meet the needs of work as required (so may need to work nights/weekends etc) due to seniority. I’ve always done extra unpaid hours but am currently working roughly 60-80 hour weeks. At Christmas, it should go back to a more “normal” 45-55 hours/week. And so are most people around me.

At my level, it’s really not unusual to have some only doing their 37 hours, and other regularly doing 50-60 - and lots having occasional peaks of a couple of weeks of 50-60+ and then back to 40-45 average.

I used to work for a company that expected a shitload of unpaid overtime. There was one month where I did a full working weeks’ worth of overtime, and was off sick for two days with a d&v bug- and they deducted two days’ pay from my salary that month.

Well then you leave on the dot of 5 or 6 or whatever.

I used to work somewhere where I had no break at all for the whole day which started at 8.45am and sometimes I didn't finish til about 8.30pm. I was never, ever out the door before 7. I wasn't even allowed to go to the toilet without asking someone to cover for me.

All meals and snacks were brought to me and paid for by the boss. Obviously to stop us fucking leaving for even five poxy minutes?!

I think it was illegal but I was too young to know!

I’ve handed my notice in

In my NHS trust, anyone over a set band is expected to do overtime and to do that for free unless it's a specific thing like a half day to attend a named thing. Too much work or over running clinics, tough luck.

You are being treated like a mug. Not good.

Well done you