Guest guest Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 We must do our trades with in the same 40 hour pay period as my department goes under FSLA, which to paraphrase, any hours over 40 worked in a 7 day period is overtime even if you had a short week before hand. So I guess it all depends if your department goes under their impression of FSLA or if they figure what the heck, if we get caught, we'll stop doing it " wrong " . Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 >even though it may be your idea and not your employers for you to work over one week and under the next. If they permitted this then unscrupulous employers could start implying that you should " voluntarily " switch your time when it suited their needs,< That... and it's a book keeping nightmare. Yes... I know... they'll usually say, " we'll just switch " " you don't even have to put it on the schedule " . Then, it becomes close to, if not, illegal. No one ever convinced me it was really needed. My Dispatchers received good vacation time, comp time, holidays, sick leave, personal days... If you needed the time, it was nearly always there... they just didn't want to " waste " a day... Weintraut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 " If you needed the time, it was nearly always there... they just didn't want to " waste " a day... " At our agency if its not time that you bid for at shift bid there is a slim to none chance that you will get the time off. We get 12 vac days a year, and two holidays every 6 months that we can bid for to get off. As family events and things you would like to attend come up through the year there is no other way to get off except by exchange, or hoping there is an extra person on shift that night (which happens next to never). So without our exchanges we would be a very unhappy group of employees, and probably would be an even higher turnover rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 Very interesting link Jim! Thanks for the info! Roxann " http://www.dol.gov/dol/allcfr/ESA/Title_29/Part_553/29CFR553.31.htm It's to bad administrations are afraid to research this and realize it's a great perk. Jim Mr 911 TriCom " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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