My parents told me that in China, they get paid once a month. And its a common story where employers refuse to pay their employees, and authorities kinda suck at doing anything about it…
Sometimes they ask you to 试工 (trial work?) for like a day (or whatever period of time they ask you to do), then they just say your performance is bad or whatever excuse, refuse to hire you, then you leave empty handed, and basically did work for free. So when my mom was was looking for work, I heard her ask “so just to make sure: I do get paid for today regardless of if you hire me or not right” (that was here in the US, at a store run by another ethnic Chinese), which is when she warned me about the shenanigans in China…
Anyways:
Here in the US, it’s always been weekly pay
I don’t think they ever had an issue with employers refusing to pay over here.
In China, my mom told me that sometimes they delay your pay for like a few days to sometimes even almost a month late… like its routine…
that China stuff was before 2010 btw
So about the overtime…
There’s no such thing as the 1.5x bonus for time over 40 hours in China…
Sometimes they have performance-based bonus pay.
Like for example: my mom worked in electronics sales (think a sort of “Best Buy” type of thing) and like get commissions for making more sales… that type of stuff…
Afaik, there has always bonus pay for overtime for the employers my parents worked for here in the US. (I mean unless you are talking about those sketchy “under the table stuff” which my parents never did cuz they don’t wanna mess the IRS.)
So hows the situation in your country? Is there like routine delayed pay or those shenanigans?
Midwest, USA. The last time i was hourly, I was in the UAW. We were paid weekly. Overtime was 1.5x, Sundays were 2x. Holidays were an extra 1x, so a Friday holiday would be 2x. A Saturday holiday would be 2.5x, and a Sunday holiday would be a glorious 3x.
Since I’ve been salary. One place has been paid twice a month and the rest have been every two weeks. One place had what they called “bank hours”, where anything over 45 hours (our base week) were put into your hours bank. This could be used as additional PTO. The cap for the bank was 60 hours. After that, you were paid out straight time with your overage. Another place paid out straight time over 45 (our base week was 40 hours) that pay period, no bank.
Where I am at now is just straight salary, but I rarely work over 40. And the pay is still significantly more than anywhere else I have worked. Which makes me wonder if those other companies knew they were over working us, and our base salaries were based on the assumption of how much OT we would be working.