What is the logic in approving 10 hours a week overtime to 4 employees, instead of hiring 1 more full-timer?
154021
If you hire a full-time person, you have to pay that person not only salary, but also benefits.  This can include health insurance, dental insurance, workman's comp insurance, vacation, sick leave, etc.  It also costs money to recruit a new employee, train that person, and keep them trained.  You may have to find an office/desk/cubicle for that person to work at.  You have an extra car in the parking lot that needs a parking space.  You have one more person that needs to be supervised and kept "in the loop" on things.\n\nPlus, when you create a new position, you often have to justify it to the higher-ups in the organization.  It's easier to justify paying overtime, especially if the workload level fluctuates.\n\nNone of these are issues if you simply pay your existing workers to work overtime.  It is often cheaper and simpler to pay the OT.  Plus, many workers actually like the extra money.\n\n---===---\n\nTemps can be just as expensive as overtime, or more.  Depending on what industry you are in, temps can be a crap shoot as far as quality and loyalty.  Many companies, for a variety of reasons, would prefer to use their own workers when it is feasible to do so.\n\nThere are certainly disadvantages with lots of overtime too.  When employees are forced to work overtime that they do not want to work for extended periods of time, employee burnout goes up, sick leave usage goes up, attitude toward work goes down.  It's a balancing act.
446802
Supposedly they're supposed to pay you for 40hrs/week, however part of the agreement when you take a salaried position is that you will work an expected number of hours per week.  Some employers are more flexible with comp time than others, but if you didn't work your 40 hours you aren't holding up your end of the agreement.
526461
Around here you can. You just have to have 24 hour notice of overtime. \n\nBut yea you can. If you are working for a company that says that much time is mandatory then just go find another job. \nIt will be alot easier than "Beating the Man"
504960
State & Federal Laws play a large role in the answer to your question - there are guidelines.\n\nAt the same time, it depends almost entirely on the Salary agreement you signed when you came on board.  While I hope companies don't exist that abuse salaried positions - there are.  If you signed an employment contract that agrees to a salary docking everytime you take time away from your job then you are stuck.  At the same time, if you work those hours elsewhere in the week I should hope there is a clause that has a cumulative total - 40 or 45 hours per week or something like that...  \n\nAlso, salaried employees have to meet certain position criteria.  Some of that criteria consists of managing others, managing a process, decision-making, or hiring/firing decisions.  In other words you cannot bring in an entry level employee who performs a task, has a manager, and has no impacting decision-making as a salaried employee...  You could look up wage & hour information on google.com.
534393
There is no law on how few hourse, they can work you 1 hour a week if they want.  It will be a written contract or a union contract as to what hours your work.
1181772
As much as people run around on weekends, adding another day would make it worse, not better.  Besides short of working 10-hour days, people would have less money and that would hurt the economy.\n\nOf course, I work at a company where I can flex my hours so I could do this if I wanted to but the idea of 10-hour days does not appeal to me at all.
657104
While i'm not certain, my guess would be that it means "i'm getting four hours of overtime-pay"  Overtime pay is usually what you normally get paid per hour plus half of that per hour if you work more hours than in your contract or originally decided with the employer (for example, instead of 6 dollars an hour for 40 hours a week, you work 44 hours hours per week.  You would get 40 hours at 6 dollars/hour and then 4 hours at 9 dollars an hour)\n\nHope this helps!
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3 shifts, 8-3, 1-8, and 3-10.  That's based on 7 hr work schedules.  39 servers doesn't necessarily mean they are all full time employees. Basically have 4 people open, 3 midshifts, and 4 closers.
531497
I am not a lawyer but the answer is...\n\nIt depends.  The definition of over time is more than 40 hours a week.  The above situation would be true if they adjusted your schedule so that you did not work more than 40 hours in a week or 80 hours in a two week pay period.\n\nAnd only hourly employees receive overtime pay.  If you are salaried you do not receive any extra pay.
578823
It has to do with time differences in work hours.
164794
In most parts of the US - this would be an easy "Yes".  In Canada I am not so sure. I  did find the section of the law that seems to apply, but it has some provisions that are very different from how things are in the US. I am hoping it makes more sense to you.\n\n170. \n(2) Subject to subsection (3), an employer may, in respect of employees not subject to a collective agreement, establish, modify or cancel a work schedule under which the hours exceed the standard hours of work set out in paragraph 169(1)(a) if\n\n(a) the average hours of work for a period of two or more weeks does not exceed forty hours a week; and\n\n(b) the schedule, or its modification or cancellation, has been approved by at least seventy per cent of the affected employees.\n\nPosting of notice\n\n(3) Where a work schedule is to be established, modified or cancelled pursuant to subsection (2), the employer shall post a notice of the new schedule, or of its modification or cancellation, in readily accessible places where it is likely to be seen by the affected employees, for at least thirty days before the new schedule or its modification or cancellation takes effect.\n\nR.S., 1985, c. L-2, s. 170; 1993, c. 42, s. 15.
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Time at home with the family because the overtime is going to be taxed at 30% and the difference on the paycheck will be very minimal.  Also, there will be very few customers and business will be sloooooow.  Time will go painfully slow.
924599
it would take 10 workers 12 mos. so 1/120 of the job per worker month ot it takes 120 worker months to do the whole job so\n\nhave 1/2 left to do which will require 120/2=60 worker months.\nThere are 4 months left\n60worker months/4 months=15 workers. have 10 workers so need 15-10= 5 more workers.
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not calling in for a week is considered 'job abandonment', in which case, you have no case against them. I know this is a legit reason for termination, because it was used on me. However, I *had* called in. In fact, I had worked a full 10 hour shift during the time they claim they had not heard from me. However, it wasn't worth it to me to fight them in court. Maybe I should have. Turns out, they were fighting like 10 lawsuits at one time.
301213
That may be unique to California (their kinda weird out there compared to the rest of the country any how) Federal wage and hour laws require (in most cases) that time and one half be payed for any more than 8 hours in any one day and over 40 hours in any week. Their are no requirements for an employer to pay double time, triple time etc. unless it is a part of some kind of contract (union or other wise) so you will have to check with your state's wage and hour board.
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there are no laws... but in the employer's policies there might be something about being sent home early.  Like where I work, we do not have to go unless we want to and they can not work us less than 4 hours unless we want to work less.
967943
The hours you state are 10-11 hrs per day, not including your lunch break.  \n\nYou're definitely working more than 40 hrs per week.  So if you're not getting paid overtime, you're definitely due a salary increase.\n\nPut your ducks in a row and list your contributions, both over the entire time you've worked there and since the personnel cuts.  Emphasize everything in positive words - stay aware from looking like you're complaining about management decisions made by your boss.  \n\nWhat are your costs related to the job?  Any additional costs since you stay so long each day?  \n\nStay professional and keep things relevant to a pay raise (remember you're not asking for the company to hire more help, you want that money to go to you... )\n\nGood luck...