Do you accept overtime work without overtime pay??

If you're new to the industry and looking to gain experience, probably you may want to look it in a positive light and see it as a way to gain more experience. You can help the company if you're feeling kind. But it has reached your boundaries and limits, I suggest you stand up for yourself or quit if such events are repetitive.

This kind of things offen happe,especially in private companies.Personally speaking,I am not willing to overwork witout extra pay. I once quitted for this reason and went to a new company whose HR said this kind of things would not happen in their company. But actually the new company is not better than the former one.

Of course you don't have to work overtime if you don't get overtime pay, acording to our labor law, unless you are clueless about your rights. In the case of China, i understand you probably do not have the same right as in U.S to refuse working overtime even if your employer trying to force you to work overtime without pay or with just regular pay, it all depend on how well your country's labor law protect worker rights. Yes it is not fair to pay you regular time but expect you to work overtime against your wills, like i say, if your country labor law doesn't recognize you has any right to refuse working overtime for your greedy chinese employer, then i am quite sure it will be up to you to fight for your right either to resign or demand a fair treatment from your low life Chinese boss. In fact, i am not really surprise you are being treated less than human but more like slave labor by your Chinese boss at all, most of them are As*$$ hole from my personal past encountered with them.

I am a salaried employee so all my overtime is unpaid. If you are hourly then you should be paid.

It is unfair to work overtime without pay, that's an extra effort that's not compensated. If I were you, I would refuse the extra load since its not even paid but you might lose your job over something like this. Try to weigh in your options and read the atmosphere, if you don't think you'll get fired for refusing the overtime work, then flatly refuse it.

well.it's very popular affair in my country. a lot of people (including I) are also doing extra work and without extra pay. what can we do? we can do nothing. either you accept this job or you lost this job... unless you are doing you own business.

At the moment I don't, but I know this is not very uncommon. I would probably accept it if I thought I would get into serious trouble if I didn't. So I think you need to ask yourself: what would happen if you didn't accept?

It is so difficult to say what you should do in this. I would think that extra hours equals a larger payday and if you really need the extra money then its obvious that you should take the hours. I totally agree that its unfair to not pay overtime as most companies do pay overtime. On the other hand if you really like where you work and working extra hours for the same pay may give impress your employer and help you to get a raise.

Yes it happens in some companies where you are suppose to do overtime without being paid extra, Some of these companies also reward their employees who put extra efforts. The reward can be a good raise on next appraisal or some sort of award. I usually accept extra work without extra pay.