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?
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.
That bit about the pay sounds highly illegal
If you are salaried, it isn’t. But we know that salaried always mean you must work your full week and sometimes extra hours without more pay. But it never means you can work less hours with the same pay.
I assume you’d notate 1:15 EST then an hour later 1:15 EDT for standard vs daylight saving
Don’t they use UTC in this case?
It’s probably hand written on paper so probably just local time
Whatever your boss tells you I guess
Work extra in fall. In spring it’s up to how your supervisor wants you to do it.
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.
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.
Our 12hr shift folks did 13 hours last night. Anything over 12 in one shift is double time pay, so there’s that.
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.
suffer.
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.
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.
