CNA's don't get full time pay?

1010MASH · Feb 21, 2012

We are forced to take an hour lunch and all shifts are 7 hours here where I am at. (South Tx) FT work here is considered 30-36 hrs. Wage is, 8.50 an hr

1010MASH · Feb 21, 2012

Here where I am at we work 4 days straight and get 2 days off. At a toltal of like 36 hrs of work.

nguyency77, CNA · Feb 22, 2012

I don't get paid for my lunch break, but I do get paid for two 15-minute breaks. So I get paid 7.5 hours out of 8.

Spidette · Feb 24, 2012

I have done CNA work for quite a while now and while working at the nursing home we were only scheduled 35h so they did not have to pay full time benefits. In saying that we always worked over that amount and were paid overtime. BUT what usually ended up happening is since we were paid every 2 weeks, the first week you had to work 60+hrs (because of call-ins and being mandated to stay) but the second week they would only let you work whatever you needed to get to 80 hours total in 2 weeks. So in by doing that they justified not paying overtime because your pay period hours were not over 80. If they were really short, like at flu season usually, and they did let you work more than 80h they then paid the overtime. But it didn't happen often. Now in explaining that, I have a complaint to ****** about. I've been doing home health care for 5 years now. Every agency I've been with (3 total- 2 part time jobs and 1 full time job at once) does NOT pay ANY over time. Our scheduled hours are 1 24h shift and 1 12h shift a week and the left over hrs are picked up by whoever wants them. So, you can work any amount of hours you want and you will always be paid the same amount. The way they justify this is that the hours of 10pm and 6am are considered "hours of sleep" and are not eligible for overtime. EVEN if you do not sleep or only sleep part of the time it does not matter. The client can be asleep all night or can be up all night with alarms going off every 5 mins and requiring continuous care and you get regular pay. No shift differentials either. That really chaps my ass. Oh and since I'm on a rant lol the client I take care of is a smoker, 2-3 packs a day smoker, and us caregivers are NOT covered covered by the smoking regulations. So,1. We work crappy long hours. 2. Have no overtime (we only make $9/h btw)3. No health insurance4. And have to deal with smoking ( I'm a non-smoker BTW)5. Get zero vacation/sick timeYa, you can see why I'm in the rn program. I'm tired of getting the shaft from "the man"!!!!!