The Dark Side of Working Nights

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Specializes in medical.

Recently my employer starting using Kronos and it is being used to cut our pay. My first pay was cut severely. I got a letter that stated that now I will receive the evening shift differential for all of my hours even though 48 hours of each 80 hour work week is night shift. My employer cut my pay a dollar an hour which is about $2000, annual salary. I am trying to fight this starting with my manager. Those of you who work nights, what is your shift differential? Any advice would be appreciated!

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$5 night shift weekend. $4 night shift during week. But that is really high and unusual.

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We get $6/hr more for nights, 10% more for our first four weekend shifts a month and 15% more if we work more than 4 weekend shifts in a 4 week period.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Is it a mistake or have they cut the night shift differentials? Some hospitals have been cutting differentials and if that is the case there is nothing you can do. Hopefully it is a computer error that will be corrected. I would talk to payroll first and find out what is going on.

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Specializes in medical.

No, I don't work in hospital. For 12 hour shifts whatever shift you start with then that is what you are paid for the whole shift so if you start on the evening shift then you get no night shift differential even though 2/3 of the shift is night shift. It doesn't affect those doing 8 hour shifts. If they start at midnight they get the night shift differential.:no: It seems a way for the company to save money on the employees' back!

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Specializes in Critical Care/Vascular Access.

My hospital went to Kronos not too long ago also, and it basically seems like they try to make everything so confusing that you can't keep up with your paycheck so they can rip you off. We have an evening differential, and a night differential too. Then there's weekends and holidays. I forget all the specifics, but I know the evening diff starts around 7 and runs for a few hours, then it kicks into night diff, and there's a dollar or so difference between the two. Our pay period ends on Saturday nights at midnight now, so half the shift dumps into the next paycheck when you work Saturday night. Also, holiday pay is only within the 24 hour period of the specific holiday, so night shift gets screwed because they only get half a shift of holiday pay, even though they're still sacrificing pretty much the whole holiday by working either shift that overlaps into it. I know it's kind of lazy, but just to eliminate the stress of it, I don't even really pay attention to it anymore. I know what my average pay is for 2 weeks and as long as it's within a hundred bucks or so of what I expect I don't even worry about it.

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I have never received a differential for working night shift; not all employers offer differentials.

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+$4/hr for night shift diff, kind of low in my opinion, but from where I held my first job (East Texas, what we call the meth capital of the south, or the Mississippi of Texas, lol no offense anyone), they would pay $24 after the night shift diff and offer no weekend diff... not to mention the raise freezes... Serious crooks... glad I quit there after 6 months and working in a bigger city where you at least get paid.

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There is -0- differential either place I work

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$3 night shift 7p-7a. Nothing for weekends.

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Specializes in Inpatient Oncology/Public Health.

$6 night weekend. $4 weekday night. We use Kronos(started since I started working there.) and never had anything like this happen.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

My CC job- 3.50 for evening, 4.00 for night diff using Kronos; weekend diff was 10% on top of the base diff.

Post acute job 2 dollars night shift diff and 3 dollars for weekends; think we use Cerner or Kronos-not sure...

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