I lost my overtime last week!

Least all you lost was overtime. My hubby got Christmas Eve and New Year's eve off w/o pay. He gets paid for the actual holiday but not for the day b4 or day after which sucks big time. That's 16 hrs. lost pay when he could of worked. Thing is, noone wants to work those days so the ones that do want to, can't cause not enough workers going in to keep the plant running.

Your idea will never fly with the powers that be. I am sure your boss had the diminished overtime in mind when she gave you comp time the other days. Sneaky of those bosses, right?

I've always agreed with that line of thinking. It used to really make me mad when I was younger and they would mandate my mom to work 10 hours a day then on Friday let her get all the way to work and send her home. Screwing people on their overtime is wrong enough, a simple local call doesn't cost them a cent. If they were going to pull that crap, the office staff that was there to send the employees home should have been mandated to come in a few hours early and call the employees and tell them there was no need in coming in that day. I think if people were to stick together and not allow themselves to be bullied by bosses who threaten to fire anyone who attends union meetings, things could change.

REally over time should come after 8 hours and not 40 hours the bosses really cheat ya out of that over time that way. when ever I go to work for someone I find out for sure how they work those over time hours and if I am going to be cheated out of them I dont work!

I am with you! I am anxious to see what my paycheck will look like next week. We are on every two weeks payperiods. I worked 80 hours regular, 8 holiday and 9 overtime. I am sure they will find some way to gouge me out of the OT pay. They almost always do.

I know this really can be aggravating. I know I don't earn overtime if a holiday falls in the week or I take a day off. Have to work a total of 40 hours before I get overtime. I think that is by law how it works.

If you work a normal 40 hour work week; that is, 8 hours per day & 5 days a week; it is by law that they must pay overtime. Also, I am sure that anything over 8 hours of a work day, they are required to pay overtime for those extra hours. I actually think it is the law. Most companies do pay overtime or holiday differential when people work on those days. I don't think it is required by law. If your regular work week is anything over 20 hours per week (it might be higher, because I heard 24 hours per week), they are required to give you benefits (health & dental coverage & minimum of 10 days vacation time). Oh - if you were told to be there at a certain time, & had to WAIT for them to open up because some idiot was late, you should be paid for standing there waiting as well.

i know how you feel as i am also working on an hourly rate... the manager always have a way to wipe off our overtime hours... anyway, as long as they do it fairly and pay me accordingly, i don't mind... :-) sorry to hear that you lost your OT last week...

Most places do pay overtime for anything over 8 hours. Of course, the place my husband works, it is anything over 40 hours. I hope you can convince them to give you overtime, but I would not hold my breath.

Not many places pay overtime for more than 8 hours in a day. I know California used to - state law - but I'm not sure if it still does. One other thing that kinda bites is when you work more than 32 hours the week that has a holiday and you get paid the 8 hours for the holiday. You wont get overtime although you are paid for more than 40 hours - it goes by HOURS WORKED, not hours paid. Of course, I don't get overtime because I'm exempt from overtime because of my profession - I'm a CPA.

If you work overtime or on a holiday, whatever the hours are you must be paid. Where I used to work they gave us "time off in lieu" but they cheated us. If we worked a holiday we would get 1 day, not double time and a half. Lots of workers are ignorant about this including the staff who make up the wage sheets and send them to head office...or else they are encouraged to deliberately cheat us. Sad but true. If these companies or even small operators want people to work they have to pay people according to the awards.

well that don't seem fair..They should have given you overtime just for working in a time that no one really wanted to work.You worked through that busy time and i think you should have gotten some kind of bonus just for being there...I am with you, i think you are right...Bad Job, mean boss !!

I think the 'anything over 8 hrs in a day' idea is great. I work 12 hr shifts and wouldn't mind getting 4 hrs of over time for each day I work!!

Oh I know how that goes! It is aggravating. However, I don't think that idea will go far with the bosses! I have suggested it lol....