Hourly rate? Summer time ending?

[vx220]

How does your employer deal with it?

I joked to MrsVX that I was owed an hours money (I'm being paid to sleep but be on call, so just paid for the whole weekend) ajd she said when she worked nights (NHS) she didn't get paid the extra hour.

Anyone else?

[phumy]

When i used to work shifts in a power plant we used to get paid the extra hour but didnt lose the hours pay when they went forward. It all depends on your employer and theyre all different..

[Mr E]

Actually, that's a good point. I was on call this weekend. I will shove the hours in and see what the system does...

[elster]

Well it is the hours worked, not the time difference. So always been paid for hours worked.

However I now do my own invoicing, every company who has contracted me have agreed to this.

[vx220]

phumy said:

When i used to work shifts in a power plant we used to get paid the extra hour but didnt lose the hours pay when they went forward. It all depends on your employer and theyre all different..

MrsVX shifts would have balanced out, not gaining or losing, except her shift pattern never aligned so she worked both!

[mph1977]

vx220 said:

How does your employer deal with it?

I joked to MrsVX that I was owed an hours money (I'm being paid to sleep but be on call, so just paid for the whole weekend) ajd she said when she worked nights (NHS) she didn't get paid the extra hour.

Anyone else?

the NHS takes the attitude that if someone wasworking arotational shift pattern including nights thanon average the hour one way wuld ballance over the hour theover way over a number of years, although for none medical staff (except those on the ambulance service style unsocial hours bands/ groups - which they originally wanted for all AFC staff until it was found that a lot of mainly female and mainly lowerpaid staff would lose out e.g. 'weekend' cleaners/ catering / wardclerks and those professionals who worked mainly nights or weekends for childcare reasons -i.e. working opposite a OH who worked 'office hours' ) the extra hours / lost hour is counted for the variable pay (shift allowances).

it;s one of these things where unless you keep records over several years ( to make sure it ballances) you have twochoicesfaff aroundwith paying peoplean extra hour basic or ignore it - extra hour of variable pay element is easy as someone is either inputting or checking those each pay run - where an extra hour of basic for salaried staff is often more complex (although it could be set-up on the system as a variable pay rate and paid as and when - but runs the risk of industrial strife and rumours about removing any over time premiums)