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employment : overtime query
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I work 12 hr shifts, 1906 hrs a year. A working week is based on 42hrs
So if my employer doesn't pay entitlement on overtime rates is this perfectly legal
So you do work shifts after all...
Yes, it is."On behalf of teachers, I'd like to dedicate this award to Michael Gove and I mean dedicate in the Anglo Saxon sense which means insert roughly into the anus of." My hero, Mr Steer.0 -
It sounds as if we've got to the bottom of this, but ... So has the overtime rate changed recently?
Absolutely, depending on what you mean by 'entitlement', and it sounds as if what they are doing is absolutely legal.
Overtime can be paid at your 'normal' rate', with no enhancement at all. It can be paid at a lower rate than normal. It can be paid at time and a third, time and a half, double time or some random rate, and it can be paid at different rates at different times, eg Christmas Day, New Year's Day.
The key thing is: what does your contract say? If your contract says something different to what you're being paid, then you have an issue to raise.
Yes overtime rates have changed recently0 -
Ask them! Explain nicely that your contract says you should get time and a half for overtime but that's not what you're getting and can they explain how it works. If they say we just decided to pay less, then you have to decide what to do about it and whether they will get rid of you if you make a fuss, or if you want to leave anyway.
Just had a thought. When you work out your hourly rate are you including meal breaks that you aren't paid for? So you may be at work for 42 hours a week but paid for less than that.0 -
Ask them! Explain nicely that your contract says you should get time and a half for overtime but that's not what you're getting and can they explain how it works. If they say we just decided to pay less, then you have to decide what to do about it and whether they will get rid of you if you make a fuss, or if you want to leave anyway.
Just had a thought. When you work out your hourly rate are you including meal breaks that you aren't paid for? So you may be at work for 42 hours a week but paid for less than that.
There is nothing in the contract stating we aren't paid or paid for breaks0
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