At a hospital I was working at during Hurricane Irma, the hourly hospital staff was paid for their overtime:
Base hourly $___ , plus $7 per hour. There was no 1.5X or 2X hourly pay when the hospital was locked down (no employees were allowed to enter or leave the hospital) from Thursday night till Monday morning.
No matter how many hours of OT these hospital employees worked, they were only paid 'Lock Down' pay. I told some employees from plant operations (engineering dept) they need to file a complaint with the Department of Labor cause they weren't paid properly...... but they are afraid to file online or call and give their name, dept, phone number, address of hospital, etc... for fear of retribution.
As a contract employee, I stayed at the hospital (we are contractually obligated to be on site for hurricane coverage) from Thursday till Monday, also because hospital administration requested coverage.
This was my overtime pay for each day:
8 hours at base pay
4 hours 1.5X pay
12 hours 2X pay
Why should these employees be worried about collecting every penny they are owed by this cheap hospital ?
Base hourly $___ , plus $7 per hour. There was no 1.5X or 2X hourly pay when the hospital was locked down (no employees were allowed to enter or leave the hospital) from Thursday night till Monday morning.
No matter how many hours of OT these hospital employees worked, they were only paid 'Lock Down' pay. I told some employees from plant operations (engineering dept) they need to file a complaint with the Department of Labor cause they weren't paid properly...... but they are afraid to file online or call and give their name, dept, phone number, address of hospital, etc... for fear of retribution.
As a contract employee, I stayed at the hospital (we are contractually obligated to be on site for hurricane coverage) from Thursday till Monday, also because hospital administration requested coverage.
This was my overtime pay for each day:
8 hours at base pay
4 hours 1.5X pay
12 hours 2X pay
Why should these employees be worried about collecting every penny they are owed by this cheap hospital ?