Losing Overtime pay!

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Hi guys, at work when they are short of staff they beg me to do double shifts or come in my days off then in the same week tell me I have to be off on a day I'm supposed to work because they are "low on census" or what ever reason they might have so I will end up losing my overtime is that even right? All those stress will be for nothing. need your insight on this. :(

Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

Every place is different. Ours is anything over 40/week. And they used to cancel us at the end of the week, even if it was our regularly scheduled day, to avoid paying us overtime. Thank goodness for a new VP of Nursing who

Put a stop to that. She agreed that if we came in on our day off or stayed over then we deserved the OT.

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