Overtime compensation

Work performed beyond the normal working time agreed in the contract, and in any event beyond forty hours in a week, constitutes overtime. Overtime requires the employer's prior request or subsequent written approval; tolerated overtime performed with the employer's knowledge is deemed approved.

Overtime shall be paid at not less than one hundred and fifty percent of the employee's ordinary hourly wage, and at not less than two hundred percent for hours worked on a weekly rest day or a public holiday.

By written agreement, overtime may be compensated by equivalent paid time off instead of a wage supplement, provided the time off is granted within three months. If it is not granted within that period, the wage supplement becomes payable.