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Companies and how they learn to turn OT into benefiting them... - So sad

Posted: Dec 22, 2014

I guess I am just spoiled that I used to work for a great company, and, of course, it was gobbled up because of their software and the transcription "had" to go with it. After about 3 years, they finally did away with the small transcription part. Each year we received a 500 dollar bonus for longevity. The line rates were great, the insurance was excellent and we got merit raises each year. If we had to work OT our line rates was one and a half times what our line rate was, so heck yeah! Count me in on this OT.

Fast forward and now here I am with a company, who makes it mandatory for OT, and if you work it your lines go into your total production lines and then whatever you get for a dollar amount for PTO is HALF of what that is for the hours of overtime you work. If you add this up against what you would make if it were paid one and half times your LINE rate it is significantly less. If I made 10 dollars an for when I took my pto, then I would only get 5.00 for the hours of OT I worked. This just sickens me, and I really hate to be a negative person, but I have been knocking myself out for this OT to make extra cash for the holidays and when I did the math I was asounded at what I was actually sickened at how much I would have made if I had been paid one and a half times my line rate. :( So, I worked 13 hours in over time in one week and at 5x13 is only 65 dollars. I produced 2500 lines, so if I were being paid one and half times my lines then I would have made 262.50. HUGE difference! :( Makes me so sick.

Thanks for listening :(

I can top that.... - download

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My sister works as an employee for $10 taking care of the elderly. When she is "forced" to work OT, with no choice, the contract says, according to the management, that her pay is $8 an hour during that OT timeframe. I probably am misstating some of the information, as I winch so hard when she said this I kinda tuned it out, but apparently for longer weeks beyond 40 hours, her pay gets less. She cleans rumps, we clean up dictations.

If you needed a pep, maybe that would help. She drives 40 minutes each day to and 40 minutes back home to do this.

Will she change jobs? no, security there. This drives me nuts, but then again, we all are in the same boat, and do we change, no, we nutty too.

Unbelievable - anonie

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Seems some way that you can report these things both the transcription company and the job your sister has.

This sounds against the law to me in both cases. If these companies were made to abide by our laws, I doubt we'd have this much problem getting paid a good living or a better one at least, especially overtime. I didn't think that they were allowed to change the OT rates and that it had to be 1-1/2 times your normal rate.

Something does not add up here. Please try to report these infractions. I will pray that you get somewhere with some agency.

Our production work falls under piece work and that's where it gets so dicey. - Tired too

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Since we work by production, the company CAN chose to pay the line rate of time and a half, but they don't have to. There is another way they can calculate it. So basically when you work overtime, you are paid your normal line rate for your lines and then for the actual hours worked you are being paid the half of what your PTO dollar amount would be. THAT IS sickening, and it should be illegal, for most that is less than minimum wage. As for the other, poster of home health, I would definitely advise her to talk to her labor board, because that really does sound illegal.

So sorry people try to work their employees to death and then not want to pay them. Terrible!

It's just one of MANY reasons why this country - is in a sharp state of decline.

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