The Dark Side of Working Nights

[CannondaleRN]

Recently my employer starting using Kronos and it is being used to cut our pay. My first pay was cut severely. I got a letter that stated that now I will receive the evening shift differential for all of my hours even though 48 hours of each 80 hour work week is night shift. My employer cut my pay a dollar an hour which is about $2000, annual salary. I am trying to fight this starting with my manager. Those of you who work nights, what is your shift differential? Any advice would be appreciated!

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

No, I don't work in hospital. For 12 hour shifts whatever shift you start with then that is what you are paid for the whole shift so if you start on the evening shift then you get no night shift differential even though 2/3 of the shift is night shift. It doesn't affect those doing 8 hour shifts. If they start at midnight they get the night shift differential. It seems a way for the company to save money on the employees' back!

They can make KRONOS do whatever they wish. They are giving you smoke and mirrors. Where I have done KRONOS one facility paid the differential that the majority of the shift was worked...that one was Union. So if you started at 7PM and worked til 7am you got night differential for the whole shift. Days got days.

The other place you got 4 hours of evening and 8 hours nights. 8 hours days 4 hour evening differential.

Yes it is to save money.

[llg, PhD, RN]

Don't blame KRONOS. It is just a system to track work hours. It can be programmed to pay whatever the employer wants to pay. Your disagreement is with your employer's compensation policy -- not the clock.

[HyperSaurus, RN, BSN]

We use Kronos as well, but our differentials change as the time goes by ( so if you worked a 12 7p to 7a, your first 4 hours would have afternoon differential and your last 8 hours would have night shift differential.)

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

We get a 7% shift differential, and on weekends we also get $2 more per hour.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

We get 12% nights, 10% evenings and an additional 12% weekends. They did cut our night diff- it used to be 15%.

[Fiona59]

$5/hr for night shift. Weekend is $3.25. Night shifts on Fri, Sat, Sun works out to $8.25/hr on top of your hourly rate.

[Nurse Kyles, BSN, RN]

$1.75/hr night shift differential

$1/hr PM shift differential

$1/hr Weekend differential

$0.85 charge nurse differential

Looks like my differentials are low.

[lefrench123]

$6 weekday nights

$11 weekend nights ($10 for weekend days)

[Dranger]

Night shift should be at least $4+ differential. Over time night shift taxes your body and actually CAN have an effect on your lifespan....

[CrazierThanYou]

I agree with others here: Kronos isn't to blame. It sounds like its just being used as a lame excuse to save money.

[carverbonnie]

I work in a TCU, long term care facility in Minnesota. The shift differential for evening or night shift is $0.60. There is no weekend differential either.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

OP, the issue really isn't what other people are getting in terms of differentials. The ISSUE is that Employee A, who arrives at 7p and continues through 7A is NOT getting the same differential pay as Employee B who arrives at midnight and works through to 7A.

It's irrelevant what other people get for differentials, it is ENTIRELY relevant that YOU and Employee B get the SAME differential pay. They cannot choose to give some people night diff and others not, when they are working the SAME HOURS.

Hospital system near me (and where I used to work) offered evening shift diff for any hours worked between 3p and 11p. Night shift diff started at 11p and ended at 7a. If you had to stay past your night shift, into days, there was no diff for anything past 7am. Those who worked evening shift and were supposed to clock out at 11p BUT had to stay to chart, etc, DID get the night shift diff for that small amount of time....and they also got warned, writen up, etc if they exceeded the 'normal' stay after a shift.

12 hour 'nights' meant that you'd get evening diff the first four hours of your shift, and night diff the last 8 (or, 7.5, they loved to deduct your meal break--and deduct the shift diff as IF you could magically teleport to daytime hours for your dinner!!).

Equal pay for equal work. You are working the same off-shift, and deserve the same pay.