Is it legal to work over the weekend?

Hi Keith, thank you for your reply. If the contract subjected to work from Mondays to Fridays, it still legal to work during the weekends?

Hi Keith, thank you for your reply. If the contract subjected to work from Mondays to Fridays, it still legal to work during the weekends?

Hi Zijun

You are quoting typical salaried / managerial terms and conditions that state normal working hours eg 9-5 Monday to Friday but any additional hours necessary to do the job outside normal hours, including weekends, with no contractual right to any additional payments if worked - not even at 'plain time' for the actual additional hours let alone at premium rates for overtime and / or weekend working. The specified rate of annual salary is deemed to cover everything - unlike eg employees paid according to actual hours worked each week or month or whatever.

Employment contracts must be 'reasonable' and not breach 'mutual trust and confidence', so in extremis a job that consistently demanded working eg 10 -12 hours a day every day including weekends might breach these implied terms but it's unusual to see legal challenges to 'excessive' job demands - probably because of the high salaries and responsibility levels etc usually involved

The contract says "You will be expected to work such additional hours as are necessary to fulfil your duties properly, including on weekends.’" so its wider than just stipulating Monday to Friday. It would be subject to the usual reasonableness requirements etc.

Can you go into a little more detail of what the actual issue is here.