Large employers in Germany will enforce the max 10 hour rule for non-managers not from the goodness of their hearts or because they don’t want to be stuck paying overtime, but because here, they have a good chance of having at least some of the liability if you are involved in an accident.
When my skip-level’s boss spotted me in the office at 7pm during a very serious outage, and told him that I’d been there since 6, he commended my efforts and insisted I take a cab home and have them bill the company directly, no matter how far away home was, and stated that I was under no circumstance to set foot on company property before 8am the next day, and that I needed to have at least 10 hours between arriving home and leaving for work the next morning.
When my skip-level’s boss spotted me in the office at 7pm during a very serious outage, and told him that I’d been there since 6, he commended my efforts and insisted I take a cab home and have them bill the company directly, no matter how far away home was, and stated that I was under no circumstance to set foot on company property before 8am the next day, and that I needed to have at least 10 hours between arriving home and leaving for work the next morning.