[starjlr]

Thanks to everyone for the great feedback. 1) The proposal would be for a two week work period. The first week would be four nine hour days and one eight hour day on the first Friday. Then four nine hour days and the second Friday off. 2) This was not brought up by the employer but the employees. This schedule would give everyone 26 more days off a year. 3) We get overtime after 8Hr, this would have to change to overtime after 9hr on this schedule. I understand what some of you are saying about the OT being cut. Again thanks for the feedback

 

[zw17]

The four 9hr days + one 8hr day would total 44hrs in one week. Unless your owner is paying 4hrs OT for those weeks he is in violation of the law.

No two ways around that one.

 

[Mike19]

Friday is the second busiest day of the week for us. Having half the techs off on any given Friday seems like a bad thing.

 

[shellkamp]

The four 9hr days + one 8hr day would total 44hrs in one week. Unless your owner is paying 4hrs OT for those weeks he is in violation of the law.

No two ways around that one.

Sure there is. I'm not sure how it is everywhere else, but in my area if the grocery store pharmacists work over 40 hours one week, the following week they work that many hours less. Which as it turns out is how the OP is proposed to be scheduled.

Managers at the same chain get paid less for their overtime hours. Their hourly rate gets cut in half from hours 40 to 50, then halved again from 50-60. To top it off, they're scheduled for 50 hours a week on average! I assure you that the law is not being broken.

There are a lot more ways to skin that cat than a lot of people realize.

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[Mike19]

Sure there is. I'm not sure how it is everywhere else, but in my area if the grocery store pharmacists work over 40 hours one week, the following week they work that many hours less.

Managers at the same chain get paid less for their overtime hours. Their hourly rate gets cut in half from hours 40 to 50, then halved again from 50-60. To top it off, they're scheduled for 50 hours a week on average! I assure you that the law is not being broken.

There are a lot more ways to skin that cat than a lot of people realize.

Are your pharmacists and managers on a salary? And its just negotiated into the salary that if they work over 40 hours they get paid extra or take hours off the next week?

I don't know the law that well, but with an hourly employee, I don't think there is a way to avoid paying overtime over 40 hours in one week.

 

[shellkamp]

Are your pharmacists and managers on a salary? And its just negotiated into the salary that if they work over 40 hours they get paid extra or take hours off the next week?

They're on a "fluctuating work week".

They get paid by the hour, but its a little goofy. They have a "base pay" of let's say $800 a week, which is for the 40 hours. So $20/hr from 0-40 hours. Then from 40-50 its $10/hr, etc, etc.

They don't get paid all of their base pay if they don't work their 40, though.



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[toocoolforschool]

Quit whining and go to work.

 

[shellkamp]

They're on a "fluctuating work week".

They get paid by the hour, but its a little goofy. They have a "base pay" of let's say $800 a week, which is for the 40 hours. So $20/hr from 0-40 hours. Then from 40-50 its $10/hr, etc, etc.

They don't get paid all of their base pay if they don't work their 40, though.



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By "they" I meant managers.

Pharmacists I never paid much attention to, I just knew that fun fact and that they made enough money that forgetting to cash a few paychecks was not a big deal for them. But I'm pretty sure their pay was somehow hourly based, and it was different than the managers' of the store.

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[chillerout1]

I guess you're not union?

 

[chillerout1]

I've worked in plants where the employees worked schedules like that they get 40 hrs straight time and 4 ot 1 week and 36 hours the next and works out for them they still get the equivalent of 80hrs on paychecks but get every other weekend off.

 

[shellkamp]

I guess you're not union?

Most definitely not.

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[mike3]

Some jobs are 4 tens and people love it. Actually they get to work their day off for overtime and still have the weekend free

 

[starjlr]

Thanks to all that replied