Overtime/holiday pay where you work?

steve-in-kville

steve-in-kville

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The company I work for is revamping their OT pay system due to the many weekends that are being worked. As it stands, we simply get time and a half over 40 hours/week. But since the company is having a lot of Saturday and Sunday work, they are considering offering extra pay for those days, as well as any holidays that are worked. I have been asked by HR to join a committee to look at possibilities.

So I am looking for ideas. What OT pay policy does your company have? What about weekends & holidays?
 
I work at a nuclear power plant with a pretty fair union contract. We get time and a half for anything over our normal daily schedule, and double time for anything over 12 hours. Saturdays are always time and a half. Sundays are always double time. Holidays worked are always double time.
 
That's the kind of answer I am after. I work in a bulk food warehouse. It has grown a lot in the last 5 years and the current OT policy is old and needs to be updated now that we have various shifts. Plus, we are working part days on the weekends as well.

Thank you for the reply.
 
Anything past 8 hours on a normal workday is time and a half. Saturdays are time and a half and Sundays are double time. Holidays are double time + 8 hours holiday pay (straight time).
 
When I worked for a very large company, we got time and a half for overtime. Overtime was anything over 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week. We got double time on Sunday and triple time for holidays. It was extremely rare
for anyone to work on a holiday that the company recognized. This was in Calif., so some of that may be because of state labor laws.

Here's a link to PA's overtime rules.

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/porta...e/10515/overtime_rules_in_pennsylvania/553571
 
I work at a 911 center and we are 24/7. We get time and a half over 40 hours and we get time and a half plus a holiday excused day to be taken later when we work holidays. Weekends don't get anything extra but we do get shift differential pay for the evening and midnight shifts 60 cents and 70 cents an hour, respectively.
 
We have both salary and hourly folks (union).
Hourly folks get
*time and a half for anything past their 8 hour shift.
*time and a half for working weekends if that is not their standard shift.
*two and half for holidays. (holiday pay + time and a half)

Salaried folks get paid straight time for OT, no matter whether on a workday or the weekend, but they have to work more than 10 hrs OT in a pay period to get it. (80 hours per pay period. If you work 89, you get paid for 80. If you work 90, you get paid for 90.) Salaried get paid holiday pay +work time for any hours worked on holidays, IF they work more than 10-hr OT in the pay period. Otherwise, they just get their holiday pay, even if they spent the day working.

Time spent Traveling is chargeable up to 8-hrs per day for salaried. Total time spent traveling is chargeable for hourly.

Time spent traveling on weekends is chargeable for hourly folk, not for salaried.

I am salaried. I am sometimes paid OT, but never as much OT as the hours I actually work.
 
I work as an electronics maintenance technician for a very large company that has several divisions, the primary is tire manufacturing and the other division I'm in is commercial roofing products. Our overtime "time and a half" policy kicks in at anything over 40 hours in a pay period which runs Sunday through Saturday. If we work a 7th day in that pay period it is considered "double" time. Now, if we take vacation during a pay period and the vacation hours used and hours worked are over 40 hours, they still pay "time and a half". Most production works 12 hour shifts but the paid holidays are only paid in 8 hour increments. I personally think if a person works a 12 hour shift as their normal working shift, they should receive 12 hours of holiday pay. However, since they pay overtime for any hours, whether actually worked, holiday or vacation, I guess I can't complain too much. My company also pays an annual bonus which was 22% or total earnings for 2012. That bonus varies every year but even with the current economy the way it is, tires and commercial roofing seems to be a good business to be in.

John
 
What OT pay policy does your company have? What about weekends & holidays?
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Overtime?!? LOL.
Salaried here. 40 hours or 100 hours, it's all the same.

To answer the second question, we don't usually work on major holidays but often do weekends.
 
Pretty much the same as Langadune here. Time and a half over 8 hours. Double time for over 12 hours. Saturdays are time and a half and Sunday is double time. Holidays are also double time. Most Saturday shifts are 8 hours but sometimes 6. The same with Sundays. I am at a large paper converting plant, @ 400 employees with 300 Union.
 
Chemical industry shift worker.
Anything over regular schedule is 1.5x. That's 36 hours one week and 48 next but the 8 is paid 1.5x. 7th consecutive day worked is 2x. Scheduled holiday is 2x. Overtime (unscheduled) holiday is 2.5x.

Fwiw, I am salaried and exempted but they still pay me overtime. I do have to work 160 hours to get 1.5x but that's only supervisors. Techs get ot from the start.
 
Overtime? Yeah, we have to pay our hourly staff (secretaries, receptionist) time and a half for over 40 but no way for the lawyers.
 
I work at a local hospital. My position is under "exempt" which means anything over 80hrs in the two week pay period is paid in "incentive" scale. 4hrs = $275, 8-<10hrs = $550, 10hrs or > = $750, after 10hr increment does not pay to work longer. I usually try to do a couple of 8hrs increments to get best deal for me.
 
I am on base + commission. So many weeks there are children in India that make a better hourly wage than I do.
 
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