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?
They never trusted their company to make it through the month?
They never trusted their boss to remember their faces after the weekend?
Or they never trusted themselves to have anything left after the weekend?
:-)
Companies in China flop all the time, probably act this way because of their learned experience.
My parents were the type to always save.
They claim that Americans (they mean Americans that are not of Asian descent) cant afford anything because they always spend they entire paycheck at some bar and just constantly depend on their next paycheck in order to have money.
They own a house in Philly… and then they look at the renters and was like: “Hey son, you see all these people renting? It’s because they’re lazy and don’t work and/or they waste money gambling or doing drugs, don’t be like those people”
And then once my depression became a thing… they say that “America turned me lazy”… bruh its called depression jesus christ mom, do you want me to kms ffs