Commute Pay/Over Time

[rachelm68]

I'm a new nurse in California and not sure what to type into google for the answers im looking for...

the run down: I am newly working single mother of a 3 year old in urgent care and the job I had applied for is located approximately 25 minutes from my house, which is no problem for me swinging childcare arrangements for an 8 hour day.

My boss has called me the night before asking me to go to another urgent care location of ours that is an hour and a half without traffic away from my house.

anywho, I am ranting at this point haha, I am curious of commute pay in California and required overtime for nurses.. I've worked a little over 80 hours for 9 days straight and have commuted twice to further away locations that I did not apply for, boss was just NOT taking no for an answer, offered an uber, childcare (which I'm not comfortable with i have my family watch my daughter for a reason) and a hotel room for me & her (not comfortable with) because I did not want to wake my daughter up really early.. in the end she had promised a bonus so I had made the early arrangements and commuted over an hour and 30 minutes than I usually do there and back

all to see on my paycheck there is no drive time, and no overtime pay.

Im curious as to what the overall rule for nurses are for drive time and overtime is before I bring it up

& how professional/legal is it to NOT have a set schedule, because I can't keep always being on call until she calls me the night before at 9:30-10:00 with the surprise location for the next day.. if it was was just me the scheduling wouldn't be that big an issue but I have a small child and my family is on call just as much as I am just in case i need to arrange/change something last minute

Sorry it's so long just incredibly frustrated

Rachel

[RNKPCE]

Overtime pay for over 8 hours in a day or over 80 in 2 weeks in California Unless you are on an alternate work schedule, such as 12 hour shifts. Then you do not get overtime for over 8 in a day. Did you sign a contract that specified you would float to another location, especially one that far away? Some jobs will pay mileage from primary location to the float location and back. I think there is no legal issue in calling you the night before telling you where/when you will work. Most people I know who work in acute care do not have set schedules. The shift is set but not the days they work each pay period other than certain weekends. Sounds like it might be time to find another job if possible. Glad your family is watching your child.