Working shifts when clocks go forward/backwards

fionajbanana

There will be thousands of workers working tonight. Tonight's shift means they work one hour longer.

Do employers pay them the extra hour or work an hour less during the week?

Obviously in March when they go forward, it's the opposite.

I have only worked night shifts during temp work in a warehouse about 7 years ago.

getzls

In work now and i will not get paid extra.

Then again if i work an hour less in Spring i won't lose an hours pay.

annie_d

Yep, the staff at my place get paid the extra hour and an hour less in the spring.

Denning.

getzls wrote: »

In work now and i will not get paid extra.

Then again if i work an hour less in Spring i won't lose an hours pay.

I would read your contract, that doesn't seem right. If hourly clocks changes make no difference, the hour you just worked doesn't disappear. If salaried with specified hours a week, again hour doesn't disappear.

fionajbanana

But what happens if employees are on rotating shift weeks - for example working 3 weeks of nights then 3 weeks of days. The night shift falls on the clocks forward and the day the clocks go back, they are on days?

hcb42

speak to their employer?

Takeaway_Addict

As long as it doesn't take the person under NMW then for salaried people its mute and some people may gain an the hour, some will lose by an hour and some will level out.

redcard

Denning. wrote: »

I would read your contract, that doesn't seem right. If hourly clocks changes make no difference, the hour you just worked doesn't disappear. If salaried with specified hours a week, again hour doesn't disappear.

His employer probably uses common-sense

Denning.

redcard wrote: »

His employer probably uses common-sense

That's not common sense. Depending on the size of the company there are probably many people who work one clock change and not the other.

Denning.

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

As long as it doesn't take the person under NMW then for salaried people its mute and some people may gain an the hour, some will lose by an hour and some will level out.

Speak for yourself. I'm salaried and I wouldn't lose an hour, it would be contracted paid overtime.

Takeaway_Addict

Denning. wrote: »

Speak for yourself. I'm salaried and I wouldn't lose an hour, it would be contracted paid overtime.

Ok, for alot of salaried people it would be mute as extra hours unpaid are expected...but fair point.