Overtime/holiday pay where you work?

RWT said:
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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My previous jobs paid per calender day. On the rig during that day, get paid. Sometimes a day's work was only three hours, sometimes it was 24.
So some days I made like a hundred bucks an hour, and other days... I don't want to think about it.
 
I am a Union Stagehand and we have several contracts we work under. One thing they all have in common is that work performed after 8 hours is at least time and a half, and over 40 hours in a given work week is also time and a half.

Depending on the contract you either go into double time after 12 hours or if you work between the hours of 12 midnight and 8 am. And if you start work between 12 Midnight and 6 am you stay on double time until your shift ends.

We also have minimum calls and minimum call backs after a meal break, turn around times between work days that can lead to a "forced call", meal penalties, and observed Holidays. All these depend on what contract you are working under.

So what you get paid depends on the contract you are working under, start and stop times, if and when you worked the day(s) before, if it is a Holiday that is observed, time of day you work, when you took meals, and a few other things I have probably forgot.

Clear as mud, no?
 
Daily--
0 to 8 reg. pay
8-10 time 1/2
10 plus double

Or

Weekly--
0-40 reg pay
40-56 time 1/2
56 plus double

5 days OT in a row that 5th day's OT is double. That is knife money!
 
I work 3 on 3 off 12 hour shifts (switching nights/days each time), so there is OT (over 40 hours) built into my schedule, plus I often work extra days. 1.5x for anything over 40.
Holidays are unique here. If I am scheduled to work a holiday, I have the option for regular pay plus 1.5x, or take the day off with pay (depending on staffing), or work the day and save it as a vacation day of my choice. I tend to work the hours and take the money. If I'm not scheduled to work the holiday, "my" holiday becomes my closest scheduled day with all of the same options above.
 
I am hospital security. We get paid time and a half if we go over 40 hours in a week.

On holidays, we get 8 hours of pay even if we're off. If we work on a holiday, we get time and a half plus those 8 hours of holiday pay.
 
Retail management, salary. No OT for me, all weekends and holidays (except Thanksgiving and Christmas) are fair game. On the other hand, I get three weeks of paid vacation per year since I've been full-time for over 5 years, 40 hours of sick time per year, and 32 hours of holiday time I can use as an extra day off or save till the end of the year and get it paid out.

Regular hourly folks get time-and-half for anything over 40 hours in a week. Of course in retail, OT is about on the same level as bubonic plague.
 
Anything over 80 hrs in a 2 week period. They either found some obscure exception/loophole, or are blatantly in violation of State or Federal law.
 
I hope we will still have this discussion in ten years. Seems like many jobs are heading toward 25 hours a week.
I sure HOPE things CHANGE for the better.
 
I was recently looking into Az Department of Labor regulations. The law here states that anything worked above 40 hours the first week of a payperiod is automatic overtime, regardless of however many hoursare worked the second week. I've noticed that the accountant and payroll departments are ignorant to the laws, and I've tested this on several occasions. I will work 50 hours the first week, and 30 the second week. The calculations displayed on the paycheck stub are always incorrect. Especially on holidays that the company observes. I will mot get into the lunch break people often work through as well as their breaks. I'm certain that there are some illegal maneuverings going on, but I'm not interested enough to blow the whistle.

Here is a brief example: 2 years ago, a coworker and I recabled a 4,000 square foot office building on July 4th. We both worked 12 hours that day. So the overtime/holidaypay combined should have been paid for the entire time the labor was being performed. When we got our paychecks, we only received the correct dollar amount for 8 of those 12 hours. W were both short approximately $400 and change. When we brought this up to payroll, we were told that they don't pay overtime that way. Since then, I've lost trust in their procedures and do not work on holidays a longer. I do also work weekends, about 3 Sturdays a month, depending on needs. I've been cutting back on that as well. Being kicked into another tax bracket, and not being compensated correctly when every other company I've worked for has clear procedures except this one just does not provide any incentive for me to give up my time with family.

We earn time-and-a-half for overtime. W also accumulate 160 hours of paid vacation time per year as hourly employees. The salaried folks earn over 200 hours of (PTO).


Gollnick said:
Time-and-a-half?

What is this "overtime" thing you speak of?
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That is what the more intelligent workers in a company get as recompense for their hours of dedication and sweat. Being a salaried employee sucks, especially when called upon to do work alongside hourly employees. Unless of course those salaried employees are working in shaded, air conditioned environments sitting their rear ends on $1K ergonomic office chairs, let's not gotget those bonuses that arrive quarterly for some.
 
Im on salary so my pay is the same regardless.

we actually get less hours on holidays which is a bonus.
 
RevDevil said:
I was recently looking into Az Department of Labor regulations. The law here states that anything worked above 40 hours the first week of a payperiod is automatic overtime, regardless of however many hoursare worked the second week. I've noticed that the accountant and payroll departments are ignorant to the laws, and I've tested this on several occasions. I will work 50 hours the first week, and 30 the second week. The calculations displayed on the paycheck stub are always incorrect. Especially on holidays that the company observes. I will mot get into the lunch break people often work through as well as their breaks. I'm certain that there are some illegal maneuverings going on, but I'm not interested enough to blow the whistle.

Here is a brief example: 2 years ago, a coworker and I recabled a 4,000 square foot office building on July 4th. We both worked 12 hours that day. So the overtime/holidaypay combined should have been paid for the entire time the labor was being performed. When we got our paychecks, we only received the correct dollar amount for 8 of those 12 hours. W were both short approximately $400 and change. When we brought this up to payroll, we were told that they don't pay overtime that way. Since then, I've lost trust in their procedures and do not work on holidays a longer. I do also work weekends, about 3 Sturdays a month, depending on needs. I've been cutting back on that as well. Being kicked into another tax bracket, and not being compensated correctly when every other company I've worked for has clear procedures except this one just does not provide any incentive for me to give up my time with family.

We earn time-and-a-half for overtime. W also accumulate 160 hours of paid vacation time per year as hourly employees. The salaried folks earn over 200 hours of (PTO).




That is what the more intelligent workers in a company get as recompense for their hours of dedication and sweat. Being a salaried employee sucks, especially when called upon to do work alongside hourly employees. Unless of course those salaried employees are working in shaded, air conditioned environments sitting their rear ends on $1K ergonomic office chairs, let's not gotget those bonuses that arrive quarterly for some.
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What do you think would happen if they were reported for those violations?
 
We get 1.5x for anything over 8 in a shift. If we work Sat it is 1.5x all day. If you work Sat and then Sunday, Sunday is 2x pay all day. They limit our total hours to 64hrs a week. We get paid for the Holidays and have them off but if they did bring us in it would be 3x pay. but this has never happened since I have been here.
Also if you miss a day during the week you still get paid for 8 but it will get taken from your overtime if you work any that week and you get dinged on attendance.
Time off when starting here was 6.68 hours a month but after 5 years you get bumped up to 10 a month and every 5 years after you get a bump.
 
I work for a major university and they are scrupulous about paid holidays and overtime. If a holiday falls on a work day, you get an extra day off.
We get all the normall-recognized holidays, and two days each for Xmas and Thanksgiving.
 
DB731 said:
What do you think would happen if they were reported for those violations?
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Hard to say. I've noticed over the last few years that there are tons of loopholes and they take advantage of them all. I think the EEOC and the Department of Labor combined might do something. I've never worked for a Not For Profit organization before (this is the first).
 
I work for a cable contracting company we are basically contracted by cable company's to do there installs. We get an extra 50 bucks for holiday pay and they claim they pay overtime but our hourly rate is based on how much work we complete.

Basically in a nut shell I get hosed.
 
Work at a hospital pulling 12 hr shifts, 36 hr work weeks, time and half for everything over 12 hrs and holidays. Occasionally when the schedule has a lot of holes they offer bonus shifts which typically pay time and a half with extra $100 thrown in on top for working the shift if you work the whole shift and its not a regularly scheduled shift. Nothing extra for working weekends but you do get shift diff which is an extra $1-2 an hour for working graveyard. We also can accrue up to 280 hrs of PTO and as much ESL(extended sick leave) as we want. We are union too so that helps. Cheers
 
Additional hrs above 40 worked Mon-Fri are time and a half.
Saturday is time and a half
Sunday is double time
Holidays are double and a half
 
I work for an auto maker, I am on salary now, except for when we haft to work Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays , I'll break down our OT now, our work Schedule is now 6-430 first shift 6-430 2nd shift, If your production is met you go home at 4:30(10 hours) and you work Monday through Thursday. Now if your production is not met(it never is ) your hours become 6-6 (12 hours) and anything over 40 hours is time and a half. Double time on Sundays, but you can't work Sunday at my job if you miss Saturday(company policy), But for me when Friday , Saturday and Sunday hit, I get paid a certain dollar figure (hourly) for my troubles:D. Holiday pay is regular pay , you must work the day before the holiday and the day after to get Holiday pay. If you decide to work during the Holiday it would be either double time , or you have the option of getting paid in vacation hours, which most people do since they are getting money already they would rather work say 10 hours and get 10 hours of vacation. We also have 2 10 day shutdown periods a year one in July and one during Christmas, during both times you get a bonus, the bonus depends on the overall Q/C of our product, productivity,injuries, etc. They get a basic dollar figure from all that , then an associates attendance, and hours worked is figured into that set dollar figure and it determines how much your bonuses are, Confused yet?
 
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Allen R. said:
I work for an auto maker, I am on salary now, except for when we haft to work Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays , I'll break down our OT now, our work Schedule is now 6-430 first shift 6-430 2nd shift, If your production is met you go home at 4:30(10 hours) and you work Monday through Thursday. Now if your production is not met(it never is ) your hours become 6-6 (12 hours) and anything over 40 hours is time and a half. Double time on Sundays, but you can't work Sunday at my job if you miss Saturday(company policy), But for me when Friday , Saturday and Sunday hit, I get paid a certain dollar figure (hourly) for my troubles:D. Holiday pay is regular pay , you must work the day before the holiday and the day after to get Holiday pay. If you decide to work during the Holiday it would be either double time , or you have the option of getting paid in vacation hours, which most people do since they are getting money already they would rather work say 10 hours and get 10 hours of vacation. We also have 2 10 day shutdown periods a year one in July and one during Christmas, during both times you get a bonus, the bonus depends on the overall Q/C of our product, productivity,injuries, etc. They get a basic dollar figure from all that , then an associates attendance, and hours worked is figured into that set dollar figure and it determines how much your bonuses are, Confused yet?
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I love when corporate people take an otherwise simple concept (payroll) and wrap it up to the rafters with beaurocratic red tape, conditions, exceptions, qualifiers, and other crap.
 

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(Proud Supporter of Common Sense) Another Non profit job with only enough time required to work it in today's climate limited to about 10 minutes per month. :rolleyes:

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