{"id":18270,"date":"2026-06-16T09:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woffu.com\/maximum-overtime-hours-per-year-how-many-can-be-worked-and-what-the-law-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:13:42","slug":"maximum-overtime-hours-per-year-how-many-can-be-worked-and-what-the-law-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woffu.com\/en\/blog\/time-tracking-management\/maximum-overtime-hours-per-year-how-many-can-be-worked-and-what-the-law-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximum overtime hours per year: how many can be worked and what the law says"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Spain, the maximum overtime hours<\/b> allowed are 80 hours per year per employee<\/b>. However, there are exceptions: overtime compensated with time off within the legal timeframe and overtime due to force majeure do not count towards that limit, although they must still be recorded correctly. <\/p>\n

For Human Resources, administration, or management, the key is not only knowing the legal limit, but having visibility into when a person or team starts to accumulate excess working time. Because the problem rarely appears overnight: it usually starts with small deviations, later finishes, poorly planned workload peaks, incorrectly recorded breaks, or shifts that do not add up. <\/p>\n

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