Overtime Rules in Romania

The daily threshold is 8 hours and the weekly threshold is 40 hours. Hours worked beyond either point count as overtime and are paid at 1.75× the regular rate.

Where a figure is not shown, Romania does not set that threshold nationally, or it is left to a collective agreement. Check the source before applying it to a specific contract.

The maximum working week in Romania is 48 hours, including overtime. Averaging arrangements over a reference period are common and may change how the limit applies to any single week.

A rest break is owed once a shift passes 6 hours, but the statute fixes no minimum length for it in Romania: the duration comes from the collective agreement, the internal rules or the contract. Unpaid breaks are excluded from paid hours, which is how the hours calculator treats the break field by default.

In Romania the first remedy for overtime is rest rather than money: hours beyond the normal week are compensated with paid time off, and the premium rate applies only where that time off cannot be given inside the period the statute allows.

That order matters for a timesheet. Hours shown here as overtime may be settled as leave rather than as pay, so check which one applies before treating the figure as a sum owed.

Select Romania in the hours calculator or the timesheet and these thresholds and the 1.75× multiplier are applied to your week automatically. Overtime hours are shown on their own line rather than folded into the total, so the figure can be checked against the statute.