If you are on salary then you don't usually have a strict limit on hours per week. You are paid a lump sum. Sometimes 40 hours a week, sometimes 80 hours a week. Advantages of being on salary are sick days and holiday days which are paid. Contracts will often contain clauses that limit your future legal options to collect…
Also for whoever posted in the last thread about "creatives" making us immune to overtime. Remember that EA* LOST that lawsuit. A "creative" as defined by law, is someone who sets their own hours to accomplish an asset. You say "make me a painting/website/character" and provide no real guide, so I can make one that takes…
unless the work assigned to you for that week is guaranteed to take significantly more than 40 hours, which is all you're getting paid for. which, Again, falls into the planning category at best and the abusive category at worst I'm all for a laid-back scheduling environment - I prefer to come in and leave at whichever…
Thanks for the response, Adam. That's too bad. There were some fantastic points being made. Well, to continue the discussion, I`ll first touch on the first point. The OP had said he was talking to his dad about unpaid overtime in the industry, and that he couldnt come up with a good reason of why it happens. And that he…