Looking For Advice On A Hospital Job

[Lovethenurse2b25]

I'm asking for advice for a friend (colleague) of mine. 

My friend was hired at a hospital in Nov of 2020 at a Hospital. Due to covid all of the hiring process was completed Online including the new hire orientation. This past month there was a change of DON on the unit. The new director came forward and stated she is not working the correct number of hours. She currently works part time which is two 12-hour shifts per week. But the new director is saying the requirement is alternating two 12-hour shift on week and three 12-hour shifts a week the other two weeks of the month. The Don stated that the position is suppose to be 34 hours a week. Which doesn’t make any sense for example:

3x12=36 + 24= 60hours 

Vs 34+34= 64 

The hours still won’t equal out to be correct on a pay period. To make matters worse the hospital is saying they cant locate her original contract of 24 hours a week part time position. But they did offer my friend a per diem position instead. Can they do this ? It sounds like a cover up for something. 

Meanwhile another coworker of mine has been asking for my friends a part time position because he is in nurse practitioner school. So the past few months they have been accommodating his schedule. He was allegedly approved to work 24 hours a week instead of 36. But they wonder why the schedule is understaffed. 

Can my friend take legal action. Covid made everything a nightmare. 

[Lovethenurse2b25, ASN, BSN, CNA, LPN, RN]

On 7/23/2021 at 5:42 PM, Hannahbanana said:

Lessee now. 52 weeks in a year = 26 2-week pay periods, or 13 4-week pay periods.

So I’m kind of confused about this, since there are more than 3 weeks in a month...

If I understand you correctly, I think you’re looking at a four-week rotation with 2 weeks x 24 hours plus 2 weeks x 36 hours in it, for a total of 48+72 = 120 hours in four weeks, which averages out to 30 hours/week.

If you’re looking at a three-week rotation (one week c 2 12s and two weeks c 3 12s each), that would be (2 x 12)+ (3 x 12) + (3 x 12) for a total of 24+36+36 = 96 hours/3 weeks, or 32 hours per week on average. Another way to look at that is 8 shifts in 3 weeks, totaling 96 hours.

Your original post doesn’t make it clear— “on” or “one”? Three weeks or four? How many weeks in a pay period? Can you check again please? 

Bi-weekly pay period. With the new manager is requiring is an average of 34 per week.

[Hannahbanana, BSN, MSN]

Doesn’t seem arithmetically possible to hit 34, though three 12s per week would be 36.  I’d show her the relevant parts of the above and ask her where the extra couple of hours would come from. It is possible that some innumerate functionary in HR told her to do this, and they can’t figure it out either.