No Overtime Pay after Forty Hours

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I was told that I would not be paid overtime for the "probationary period" (first 3 months)....I thought it was law that, if you work over 40 hours, you get time and a half past 40.

Anyone know?

They did away with the federal overtime protection but many states still require it. Check with your state.

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The law is supposed to apply to salaried nurses...which anyone taking a salary knows they aren't getting overtime anyway.

The only problem I see is for nurses that have to work mandatory overtime. But, hospitals would be insane to jump on this wagon. With the "shortage" already in swing, nurses would not put up with this and the facilities know this.

When this law went into effect my mother was in a SNF in the skilled nursing section. Management had a meeting with all employess and announced that from now on all RNs would not be paid any overtime. They all quit and gave a one week notice on the spot. They had no problems finding jobs elsewhere :rotfl:

Lu Ann

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After 40 hours...you're on MY time now...so you'd better comp me for it, buddy. If I'm salary...well, that's MY fault!

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It just keeps getting worse doesn't it?????? If I don't get paid for overtime then I don't work overtime. If that means I must start leaving some things for the next shift to do, so be it.

One nurse we work with is a habitual abuser of overtime. Daily.......and I don't mean a couple times a week, I mean DAILY spends no less than 2.5 hours past her clock-out time to 'catch up'. That means she can sit and finish charting, bugging the other nurses or just 'chat' at her leisure and not be 'bothered' with patient load.

The rest of us push ourselves to get all the mountians of paperwork they keep sloshing at us.......all within our shift......why can't she?? Mainly because she is calling the doc's for every little stinking thing........'they didn't take their lasix, they didn't poop today, she has a small skin tear what should I do??? She is driving everybody nuts!!

She has been at this same job for over 27 years and has absolutely NO confidence in herself or her skills. She won't draw blood, start IV's or initiate skin care. She always makes up excuses as to why she can't and would you do it for her........I don't. I have enough to do with my load, let alone doing her job too. She drives our floor doc crazy.

But, she is a good 'suck up' and hence gets away with 20+ extra hours on her paycheck each payday. If we clock in more than 3 min early or 3 min late, we get the 'royal chewing'..................you just can't win........ :angryfire

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As a side note, NannaNurse, I totally agree with you in that I wouldn't assist her in her "suck up" time either. On the clock and past her shift like that, it interferes with MY time. "If you find it, YOU take care of it...have a nice day" How's that for assertiveness? No, I wouldn't tolerate it. Worked with one of those "suck ups" many years ago. Her typical work behavior on the clock was chit chat with docs, call friends, paint her nails...anything but take care of patients. Another thing she was very well known for was, for example, in taped report, she would state her great concern about a patient's need for an NG tube for gastric decompression. Talk about her concern on and on in the taped report about the patient's nausea and vomiting, significant abdominal bloating, and absence of bowel sounds. On and on and her great concern...yes, wee early in her shift. Now I come on at 3 pm and she comes up to me after hearing her taped report, reporting she got a doc order for the same NG tube at 2:50 pm and would I be a sweetie and insert it for her, because oh my...it's time to go home! Let's just say, I wasn't much of a sweetie then. She inserted it...oh, with yeah, my insistence. She would try to do this stuff all the time. I stood my ground and wouldn't budge an inch. Hey, I know the ache, friend. I also knew a nurse, also many years ago, who did alot what your um, little friend does. "Ahh, didn't day shift end 2 hours ago?...I think we can handle it from here. Have a nice day. No, really, you need to go home. Bye now." Daily, she would try to suck the system dry. She didn't last long, because she drove the staff nuts and she eventually went bye bye because the staff finally took a stand and confronted her. Hey, we are much too busy to take care of or to entertain the chronic dead weight, pass the buck, and the suck ups. I wish you well and the best.

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