Many employees who worked over the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday failed to receive their overtime pay, an online survey has found.

The survey, conducted by micro-blogging platform Sina Weibo, polled 9,224 netizens, and found 73 percent of respondents claimed they worked from Sept 30 to Oct 7 but did not receive overtime pay.

The eight-day Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday comprised four days of State-mandated annual leave and four weekend days.

Chinese law stipulates that workers should receive overtime pay, or three times their regular pay, if they work each day of the State-mandated holiday. Workers can receive twice their regular daily pay if they work over the weekend.

Li Ran, 26, who works at a clothing store in a shopping mall in Beijing, worked all eight days over the holiday, but said she will not get any extra money.

"It's common that salespersons like us do not get overtime pay, no matter when we work during statutory holidays or over the weekend. But I was glad that my boss allowed me two days off after the eight-day holiday ended," said Li.

Li also said that when she and her colleagues negotiated wages with the employer and signed a contract, the employer said nothing about overtime pay.

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