Abstract:
Recently, employees of China Telecom Dujiangyan Branch reported that during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays in 2026, the company forced employees to work unpaid overtime on statutory holidays, refused to pay three times the salary, and did not arrange compensatory leave.
It is reported that the employee reported on the Sichuan Political Consultation website that the company clearly prohibits employees from taking holidays on holidays through work group notifications, departmental mandatory scheduling, and verbal work instructions. There is no principle of voluntary overtime. All employees must be on the job, and applications for leave and compensated time off are not accepted. While the company forces overtime work on holidays, it only uses "industry specificity and work needs" as an excuse to clearly inform employees that there will be no triple overtime pay on holidays and no post-holiday compensatory time off.
The employee also said that the mandatory unpaid overtime during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day was not a temporary arrangement, but a consistent violation of regulations during the company's holidays. For a long time, employees have been forced to work overtime on various statutory holidays and rest days. Overtime compensation has never been paid in accordance with the law, and compensatory leave has not been arranged in accordance with regulations. This is a persistent and systematic illegal employment behavior.
In response to this matter, the Dujiangyan Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau responded that the staff contacted the relevant person in charge of China Telecom Dujiangyan Branch by phone, and he stated that relevant activity arrangements had been cancelled. The company does not have mandatory overtime requirements for Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day. Overtime work is voluntary for employees, and triple pay for overtime work during holidays has been implemented.
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