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It doesn't matter where your company is located. If you work in CA you are to be paid time and a half for any hours after 8, double time for hours after
12. Unless the nurses at your hospital have signed away this right either in a union contract or by vote. (In the last couple of years hospitals have threatened to go back to the 8 hour shifts unless 12-hour employees voted in favor of OT after 40 hr/week instead of OT after 8 hours....called it cost cutting).
I may be wrong, but I thought Ca. has this weird option where a company can decide when it's overtime. Meaning....
1) They can pay you overtime for any thing over an 8 hour day OR
2) They can pay you overtime for anything over 40 hours in a week.
I know some hospitals that don't pay overtime for 12 hour shifts, because most of them work less than 40hrs a week. But the company has to notify you in writing of how they will pay, and any subsequent changes they make ot the policy.
jayhawk3000
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Is it mandatory to pay RN's time and a half after 8 hours worked in the state of CA?Does this hold true even if the RN signs a contract for 12 hour shifts?