No, not in any instance that I have experienced or been aware of. Salary means "you need to be here 'enough'". Most of the time, enough = 40 hours + whatever extra is needed to not fall behind. Occasionally it means nearly 40 hours if you don't work at a "butts in seats" type place.
It also often means you need to be available in some capacity 24/7.
That's a great question. In the US salaried employees are exempt from overtime. Generally, the idea is that you are to work as much as is needed, hence the generally higher pay. There is no set amount of work per the employment contract (in general). You could work very little during slower periods, or a lot during higher demand times.
In Germany there is a hard upper cap at 48 hours/week for any normal employee (like pretty much everyone working at Twitter would be). Up to 60 hours/week can be legal if the average in four months isn’t above 48 hours/week (so this is to allow for temporary bursts in the workload, but beforehand or afterwards hours have to be reduced even below 48 hours to reach the 48 hour/week average).
Overtime doesn’t necessarily have to be paid, though this has to be explicitly specified in the employment contract (including the exact number of unpaid additional hours that can be demanded by the employer).
All of this doesn’t mean that many employees – especially those in smaller companies without workers councils or union support – won’t work more than 48 hours/week. That still happens in Germany. But at least no one can demand it from you and hardly anyone would be able to as brazenly just put that in writing.
lghh|3 years ago
It also often means you need to be available in some capacity 24/7.
Balgair|3 years ago
arrrg|3 years ago
In Germany there is a hard upper cap at 48 hours/week for any normal employee (like pretty much everyone working at Twitter would be). Up to 60 hours/week can be legal if the average in four months isn’t above 48 hours/week (so this is to allow for temporary bursts in the workload, but beforehand or afterwards hours have to be reduced even below 48 hours to reach the 48 hour/week average).
Overtime doesn’t necessarily have to be paid, though this has to be explicitly specified in the employment contract (including the exact number of unpaid additional hours that can be demanded by the employer).
All of this doesn’t mean that many employees – especially those in smaller companies without workers councils or union support – won’t work more than 48 hours/week. That still happens in Germany. But at least no one can demand it from you and hardly anyone would be able to as brazenly just put that in writing.