Overtime & time and a half.

[TypeR]

Are employers obliged to pay a greater hourly rate if you are asked to work more than your weekly contracted hours?
My colleague thinks he's entitled to overtime pay at time and a half, but I think he's thinking back to the good old days where you got double pay on Sunday and 1.5X for overtime.
Is there a hard and fast rule, or do different employers take different views.
We're in retail and our bosses want us to do more hours over the Christmas period.

[AndyAudi]

In general I don't think so, unless it is in a contract.
There may be exceptions though,
In Agriculture there is a minimum of 1.5 x Agricultral Minimum (Not 1.5x Actual Rate the Employee is on)

[AndyAudi]

Info

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/W...

[jagracer]

It depends on your contract, we used to do overtime at standard rate except for Saturdays which were X1.25 for 4 hours then double after that.

[paulrockliffe]

anonymous said:

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Can you expand on this? If you're paid £20k a year for a 9-5 x 5 days a week, but you're doing extra unpaid to the point that £20k/total hours < Minimum Wage, is a Law being broken?

[TypeR]

anonymous said:

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Thanks. You've answered my question Tonker.
We're not being forced to work extra hours, we've been offered another 10 hrs a week, starting 4th Dec upto 24th Dec. The latest we'll close the shop is 8.00pm on a couple of Thursday's, so it's not a "big ask" as the 'mericans say.
We've always been paid the normal rate for O/T, but our new lad seems to think it should be 1.5X. I'll tell him to stop being so Militant!!
Our Staff Discount (we're in the Wine Trade ) more than makes up for any "hardship" having to work a bit of O/T and the people we work for are a decent bunch too.
Cheers.

[mph1977]

rates etc. for overtime or 'unsocial' hours working is a contractural matter as is when any additional payments kick in ( e.g. in the NHS part time staff don't get Overtime until they have worked the equivalent of full time hours - which makes 'extra hours' for those staff the chespest means of extra cover as it cheaper than NHS(un)professionals, Overtime or an external agency)