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?

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
    19·
    16 hours ago

    So hows the situation in your country?

    Monthly. Nearly 100%

    Germany here.

    Payday is usually written in your contract. It can vary from the beginning of the current (!) month to the middle of the following month.

    Workers have very strong rights if the company does not do it properly: They can go to court immediately, and they don’t even need a lawyer in such cases. The courts are going to hear them, always, and are known as generally favorable towards the workers.

    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      15 hours ago

      To add to that, things can be a bit messier in small companies, both for good (boss has a good year and just gives you money / sends well-paid work your way) and more often for bad.

      I have to admit I did " free trial work" and was not hired afterwards, twice. First time I was essentially just hanging out with the other workers for a day, to see if I was a good fit (apparently not), second time I actually helped for a few days, and then their preferred hire did agree to join. Got paid under the table though, and I was unemployed, bored and the job was fun, so I am not too salty.

      All my proper long term jobs were with larger companies with strong unions and collective agreements though. Can recommend, it may not look necessary if you make it past the “lower ranks”, but I hate negotiating and “job x is rated as pay level y” makes things so much easier

      • getFrog@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        Interesting, I’m in Germany too and I only recently learned that ‘Trial work’ without a contract is actually completely illegal (thanks random NDR youtube clip!). But I guess companies know some random loopholes around it?