Working night shift on daylight savings day-paid for 12 or 13 hours?

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Specializes in LDRP.

So say you work 7p-7a. It's daylight savings time, which is coming up soon.
At 2am, it kicks back to 1am (or does it switch at 3?). So then, you are working 13 hours total, even though its a 12 hour shift.

Do you get paid for 12 or 13?

Thanks!

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Specializes in Government.

I worked this shift, for 15 years.

I always got paid actual hours worked, 13.

Same with Spring; we'd get paid for 11.

It's a common topic of discussion amongst night shifters. I have heard of some places that make you eat the fall hour and pay you for the non-worked hour in the Spring. I've never experienced that myself, though.

Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.

We always got paid for 13 hours, and 11 hours when we jumped ahead. We aren't salaried, we get paid by the hour. :)

Specializes in Gerontology.

We get paid for what we work. 13 hours if clocks go back (or 9 for 8 hour night) and 11 (or 7) when clocks go ahead.

We get paid 13 hours for fall, 11 hours for spring. I only worked the fall one once and that was enough! 13 hours was one too many for me.

Wow, I guess my hospital was in the minority. We got paid 13 hours when we worked 13, but in the spring we still got paid for the full 12-hour shift, even if it was only 11 hours long.

Wow, I guess my hospital was in the minority. We got paid 13 hours when we worked 13, but in the spring we still got paid for the full 12-hour shift, even if it was only 11 hours long.

This is also what I have experienced. I get paid for 9 hours in the fall and for 8 hours in the spring even though I work 7.

Specializes in Public Health, DEI.

If you're hourly, your employer would be violating labor laws by not paying you for every hour you work- whatever the clock may say. Just because the clock is set back doesn't make that hour disappear.

If you're salaried, I think you just get what you get.

We get paid twelve hours for both. They figure since it's the same staff working both of those weekends, it just works out. It so happens those days have not fallen on my weekend so it hasn't really affected me. (And if I ever got out after only 12 hours, it would signal the end of the world as we know it anyway.)

Specializes in Critical Care, Cardiothoracics, VADs.

We always got paid by the clock - so 12 hrs each time, since you worked 7-7. OK if you work both weekends, but most of the time you didn't, as everyone wanted to work the "spring forward" weekend!

You get paid the nuber of hours you put into your job.They calculate it from the time you clock in to the very minute you clock out.

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