Different shift pay rates

Are you unionized? Usually there is a shift premium for evenings and nights and a premium for weekends. So if you can get Fri, Sat, Sun evening shifts you double premium on top of your hourly wage.

Our shift diffs are the same for nursing assistants as for licensed staff. $2.00 for 3-11, 2.50 for 11-7 and $3.00 for weekends.

I work at a corporate assisted living facility in the Skilled nursing/ Alzhemiers Unit as Charge LPN, and nobody gets shift or weekend differential. We have asked about it since we got a new executive director and she says that she is looking into it. I really think that there should be some sort of extra pay for different hours worked because they already pay less than a nursing home, but perform the same skills. Go figure.

Hi. I'm nearly finished with a CNA program, so I was wondering if the pay scale for CNAs differ, depending on the shift they work. The nursing home that I want to work at is a public one, and they pay the same rate, no matter what the shift is. However, on federal holidays, they pay time and a half. Some people have told me that it's better to work for a private nursing home, since they supposedly pay more for weekend work and midnight shifts. Is that really the case? I've heard that nurses get different hourly wages, if they work weekends and overnight shifts, so does that apply to CNAs, as well?

WOW! Iam a freelance (self employed) RN. Aged care homes down under pay pretty lousy rates but at least you are recognised for the shift you work.

Example: Basic = morning shift mon - fri (between 6.00am - 6.00pm)

Afternoon shift = basic + 12.5% mon - fri (from 12noon onwards)

Night shift = basic + 15% mon - fri (between 6.00pm to 7.30am)

Saturday = basic + 50% (midnight fri to midnight sat)

Sunday = basic + 75% (midnight sat to midnight sun)

Public holidays = basic + 150% for casuals and basic + 100% for regulars

(For casuals 'basic' is regular basic + 23% as there are no allowances for sick or holiday pay!)

I think by your standards we must be spoilt?

Unfortunately 'basic' or basic does not ammount to very much!

Assistants from basic $15.00AUS to Registered Nurses basic $21.00AUS per hour. It is better than being unemployed!

Mister Chris.

The nursing home where I'll be working does have a union, but I don't know the specifics about how they do the rates. I don't get a booklet or anything like that until orientation (which starts in a few weeks). All I know is that the CNA instructor said that new employees get the same rate, regardless of shifts and weekend work, but that we get time and a half for working federal holidays. Since that is the case, I don't plan on working during the evening shift, unless they decide to pay more. A couple of other aides told me that other places do pay more for weekend and night shifts, so I was curious as to whether the extra pay was expected or not. Thanks for your answers.