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Overtime as an IC???? - SaySally

Posted: May 08, 2012

I got an e-mail last week saying OT was required during the upcoming weekend. Wow! What's up with that? I'm an IC and part time at that. Crazy!

say it isnt so - me

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I worked as an IC for a company sometimes mentioned here, and they forced me to work 1 weekend a month after about a year and a half of working there. It was for stats so I was on call from 6 am to 4 pm for anything that came in. It really pissed me off. I was only part time and was scheduled Monday through Friday from 1 to 5 pm only because they knew I had another job!!!

Precisely...sm - Another MT

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Tell me about it. I tell you, I hate to sound unappreciative for the work, but something has got to give. For the last 4 years, 2 different companies, same thing. Constant overtime, evening and weekends. IC means no incentive except "just be thankful for the job."

Why in the world don't these companies just hire a few more MTs? I just do not get it. I changed companies last year for this reason and now back in the same boat.

mother's day weekend...everybody wants off - anon

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nobody wants to work "holidays" particularly employees, so they make the ICs work just because "they can."

Holidays off - justmedlc

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I didn't think it was legal to be forced to work all holidays!! At Nuance, we MTs (but not managers!) have to work every holiday unless we ask for it off enough ahead of time and before too many people have already asked for it off. I had definitely never run into that before Nuance!

BTDT...and one reason I left - Seriously gone MT

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IME especially over the last 10 years companies want to be able to control an IC's hours and schedule, like an employee, but pay and allot work like an IC. I had enough and quit the last place I worked IC because of "mandatory overtime" and being called even as late as 10 p.m. on a Saturday (we were clinic work Monday-Friday) because of a "stat" she forgot to assign. Sorry I wish I had better advice, I'm sure the good companies are still out there...well not sure but I hear rumors.

as an IC they can't force you to work OT - MT 22 years

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As an IC you are only obligated to work the hours you contract with the business for. If you are not able to work those hours, you are only obligated to advise them in a timely manner. If any business out there is demanding more than that, that is venturing into employee status and they are crossing the line AND you are letting them. Remember though there is a flipside to every solution. While you are not obligated beyond the hours you contract FOR, they are not obligated to keep you if you cannot work those hours on a consistent basis. As an IC you can only get trampled if you allow it.

Agreed but - Seriously gone MT

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Anytime you said no, you'd have 50-75% less work sent your way for a week or two (not just me because I physically know not just online know some of the other MTs). This was 2 different companies over the last 25 years, but I've noticed it becoming the norm in the last 10.

This is just horrible. Theoretically, you could be doing - work for other SM

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companies, correct? What if you said you had another contract where you were committed to weekend hours? This is infuriating that they punish you with less work. I don't understand why the DOL does not do something about this practice. I know it is illegal.

I assume nothing is done because - Seriously

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She could claim I'm an IC and she didn't have work for me. I also thInk she would win

More of the same - Notgoing2takeitanymore

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It gets worse and worse! Recently had to obtain an EIN for a position that was really an employee by IRS classifications and they were using the EIN as a smokescreen. They still wanted an I9, a set schedule, and so on.

Unethical employers rip the treasury off for millions a year calling us ICs when we are actually employees. Not to mention depriving us of the hard won labor and safety rights our forerunners fought for. Start reporting this to the IRS when you encounter it. You do not have to give your name, just the pertinent facts. It is the only way this particular exploitation will stop. Don't worry wages will continue to go down, their unreasonable demands will continue to go up, and this profession will continue to go down the tubes, but at least you will go down fighting rather than like a sheep.

All the good companies aren't still out there..Nuance is buying them all up! - justmedlc

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