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Oldmahubbard - unfortunately in Tampa, Florida the pay isn't quite as competitive as other places in the country. You're right, in many sense we are being taken advantage of.

Jules A -- thats the entire point. They want us to work over 100+ hours in a pay period once a month. While I agree that some overtime is expected, and I already work between 40-50 a week regardless and am only compensated for 40. This seems to be in excess by adding two extra work days in. Definitely time to renegotiate or like some of my co-workers are probably going to do, quit.

Thanks for the response Core0 ! Sadly some of my co-workers are already looking for other jobs, which will definitely add up to a huge expense for the physician group and they definitely won't be getting their weekend coverage when we are short staffed! Their plan was to "pay us something" for the extra days. I am trying to figure out what a fair compensation would be as well at this point as well. I doubt they will re-classify us into the non exempt status because they would be paying a lot more for overtime pay (believe me I would track every hour lol). We have big meeting this week regarding the matter. I am wondering if i should reach out to the HR rep and ask them to attend the meeting as well. Might help in negotiations.

I did put out some feelers on the matter ! Also reached out to the state board to see if they had any knowledge on the matter as well! Hoping to hear something !

Sorry for further clarification, I live in the state of Florida, which from what i read follows the same laws as federal labor laws. Also I am a salaried employee right now

Hey all ! First time posting on this forum and I am hoping someone out there has some knowledge in overtime pay and FLSA! Here is a brief summary of my situation: Currently my employer requires me and my fellow NPs / PAs to work 1 weekend a month and to prevent us from working over the required 80 hours / pay period we get 2 days off the week following the weekend we worked so that our over all hours do not increase. Not too bad. Now, however, because they plan to expand clinic hours and brought on another physician they feel as though having us off during the week is not beneficial. Therefore, we will now be forced to work 12 days in a row (Monday -Friday, the weekend, Monday - friday), which will amount to over 100 hours in a pay period. Not okay. I have done some of my own research on labor laws, however, as someone who is treating patients it doesn't seem safe or right to be in that many hours. I found a court case in 2005,which basically stated that "it was determined that nurse practitioners do not fall under the FLSAs "professional exemption" and therefore NPs are entitled to overtime pay. In the Belt v. EmCare, Inc. case the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Nurse Practitioners were entitled to overtime pay because they were not licensed to practice medicine and had to be paid a salary to be held exempt from receiving overtime pay. In addition, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that physician assistants were entitled to overtime pay wages (1.5 times the hourly wage) for working in excess of 40 hours per week. So basically, my question is, can they force overtime pay upon me and my coworkers like this and if so, what type of compensation should i be asking for ?