Question about hours - 36 for 40?

[ChgingmyCareer]

I am sure this has been asked before but I couldn't find it....when you work 3 12 hours shifts, do you get paid for 36 hours or 40 hours? If you take on an extra shift, do you get paid overtime after you work the 40 hours or anything over 36?

Thanks in advance!!!!!!

[mama_d, BSN, RN]

It depends on where you work. I work three 12's, get paid for 36 hours, and anything over 40/week is OT.

[Hilinenursegrl]

Where I work we rotate, 3 shifts one week and 4 the next. We work on an 80 hour time card so we always have some overtime. It varies from place to place.

[patwil73]

Purely depends on the contract where you work. At my hospital any one who works a 0.6 FTE or greater (which is 48 hrs in 2wks) gets OT for any extra shift they pick up. I have worked others where I worked 16 hrs Sat/Sun (total 32) and was paid for 40, but didn't get OT unless I worked more than another 8 hrs.

Hope this helps

Pat

[untamable07]

That was a good question. For some reason I thought you worked 36 but automatically got paid fro 40. Boy, what was I thinking?...lol

[cherrybreeze, ADN, RN]

That was a good question. For some reason I thought you worked 36 but automatically got paid fro 40. Boy, what was I thinking?...lol

A lot of places DO offer this incentive (with budget cutbacks across the board, perhaps they aren't anymore?). Our 12 hour shifts are 72/80, you work 72 hours a pay period and get paid for 80. The KICKER to this is, you must work all of your 12 hour shifts to get it...if you miss one due to being sick, if you are called off for 4 hours, whatever...you don't get that incentive. My boss lately has a tendency to split our shifts based on need (there's one day next week I work a 4 hour one day and 8 on another day; she does not comprehend that I do NOT get my 12 hour differential when she does this!). So you weren't wrong in your thinking, these types of positions DO exist.

[NeoNurseTX, RN]

It depends on where you work. I work three 12's, get paid for 36 hours, and anything over 40/week is OT.

Same with me.