If you are at work in the middle of the night when the clocks change, do you work an extra hour in the spring and one less in the fall?

  • notapantsday@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    At my hospital it’s just luck of the draw. If you get the night shift in the spring, you work an hour less while being paid the same and in the autumn you’re working an (unpaid) extra hour.

    The craziest thing was when my girlfriend had a patient die of non-natural causes during that night. In these cases, police have to be notified so they can investigate whether there was any wrongdoing. The police arrived a few minutes before the time of death of the patient, because in the meantime the clocks had been moved back an hour. Apparently they had also never had that situation before, so they were unsure how to document it correctly.

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    10 months ago

    Our 12hr shift folks did 13 hours last night. Anything over 12 in one shift is double time pay, so there’s that.

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    10 months ago

    I had to work overnight during a clock change.

    All I had to do was log 10 hours, so it didn’t really matter.

  • Dharma Curious@startrek.website
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    10 months ago

    Typically, your shift is just an hour longer/shorter. Though, I’ve worked for companies that tried to scam me, and pay me for 8 hours on the night with 9 hours, under the guise that they would pay me 8 hours on the night with 7. Nope. I don’t trust your ass, and I don’t know that I’ll still be working here in 6 months. I’ll take my $8.75 for tonight, tyvm.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    As a doctor, we would work and hour more or less depending on the shift changed. Im paid a supplement to work out of hours rather than by the hour, so we’d just suck it up of working an extra hour and be happy if we worked less.

    If you’re paid hourly then you’d be paid for the time you worked.

    But shift starts and finishes were unchanged, it was just the length that got altered.

  • vettnerk@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    When I worked on a ship, we coordinated with the other 12-hour shift so both of us got 30 minutes of the offending hour.

  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    10 months ago

    At my work the people on shift either leave an hour early (when clocks go forward shift ends at 7am and leave at 7am for example) or they leave early (shift ends at 7am but you leave at 6am after being there a full 12 hours) depending on which way the time goes.

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    10 months ago

    Depends on the laws of the country you’re in and the quality of the company you work for. But usually you work more for free, or you work the normal amount anyway.

  • Rocky60@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Yes, that’s how we do it. Employees on 8 hour restrictions go after 8 hours though

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      10 months ago

      What’s an example of an 8 hour restricted role / rule? Is it a medical reason thing or nature of the job or something? Never heard of it before