OVERDUE

FOUR out of 10 workers in Spain receive no compensation for their overtime.

A study carried out by Infojobs and Adecco exposed businesses in Spain for not complying with the regulations placed by the Spanish Government in 2019. The latest royal decree states that full-time employees can only work up to 80 hours of overtime a year.

It also enforces companies to monitor and register their employees working time and to pay them for all the extra hours worked.

Those organisations not complying with these policies could face fines of up to €6,000. However, the study shows that most companies ignored these regulations last year. In 2022, over half of the workers (53%) did more hours than their theoretical annual working time.