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Can an MTSO enforce mandatory OT? - So sick of this!
Posted: May 20, 2014
My MTSO has basically enforced (aka guilted us into working) OT since April 1st or there abouts. We've had less than a handful of days that it was not required. Each day I check my email I'm looking for the OT requirement ("at least 1 hour or more if you can") and now today's email basically states that mandatory OT is enforced until further notice plus extra volunteering on weekends and they are recruiting new MTs as well. I already work 6 days a week, about 45-50 hours, and am physically, mentally, emotionally drained. The only "perk" of all this OT is more $$, but it can only be on a certain account that is worked during that OT only! How can I keep track of how many lines I typed during that exact hour of OT while making sure it was only on that certain account? I've tried also to just ask for any reports out of TAT or late ones or stats to do during my regular shift so I do not have to work OT. Like give us the work in order of TAT....duh! I like to be a team player but come on! We all have lives outside of MT. If we are not able to work OT we have to email and tell them why too. I have had days where I did not work that extra hour of OT and did receive an email about why did I not work it? How is this legal?? (My MTSO is not N or MM either). Gawd I can't wait to get out of here!
In most states, yes. - nm
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Darn it! - So sick of this!
[ In Reply To ..]So basically if I don't work the OT then they can fire me, not pay me UE, and then state that I refused to work and have bad attendance, etc thus hindering me from getting a new job?
GREAT!
Wait a minute. Someone says yes, and you beleive it? Maybe google - mandatory OT for your state instead. nm
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I don't necessarily believe them, just more or less venting - is all
[ In Reply To ..]But knowing my luck with my MTSO, if I don't work OT then I'd get fired.
And I did Google it for my state and could not find a definitive answer.
So yeah
Well I'm in Wisconsin and tried several sites and couldn't find anything - about OT
[ In Reply To ..]Should I contact the labor board/DOL? I found a link for the WI DOL about filing a complaint but I don't want to go that far (yet). I'm just sick and tired is all.
Wisconsin Dept of Labor - Link inside
[ In Reply To ..]It does appear that employers in the state of Wisconsin can schedule mandatory overtime. See the link below, but here is a quote from the "Over 40 hours" heading:
"Employers may schedule employees any way they wish. This means that overtime may be made mandatory. Since employers may schedule as they see fit, they may also change employees' schedules during a given week in order to prevent them from working overtime in that week."
TY but I've seen this. It still doesn't answer my question. - see message
[ In Reply To ..]I've been to this link before I came on here to ask as I thought maybe somebody had experience with this or knew how to get more answers.
Also, I tried searching for production only employee or piece rate paid employee and couldn't find anything specific to that. I guess there's just no way around it unless I file a complaint, call the DOL directly and ask, or see a doctor about getting a note to not work over a certain number of hours due to carpal tunnel and all that, but then that's a work comp claim because I'm not paying for that even with my insurance. So I guess I'm SOL no matter what.
Thanks for the link though.
In the state of NC, yes, they can..... - Link inside
[ In Reply To ..]See Link for info for NC
OT - Hammy
[ In Reply To ..]I was on "mandatory" overtime for almost a year, working 1 extra hour every day we worked. I didn't think it would ever end. Not sure we got compensated very well for it either. From here on out, I will not do overtime, mandatory or otherwise, although my group hasn't been asked to work mandatory OT yet.
OT - Another MT
[ In Reply To ..]I find it funny that people complain that there is no work and can't make any money, and then when given the opportunity to make more money, more complaints. You can't have it both ways.
I see any OT as an opportunity to line the coffers. I can't remember the last time I worked less than 70 hours a week.
Then again, I am 12 months from retiring to Hawaii at the age of 51! All that OT is going to have been well worth it.
OT - Ari
[ In Reply To ..]When I worked there I ignored those e-mails. If I felt like working I did and if not I didn't. They never caught me or else they knew they couldn't enforce it. The funny thing is if you tried to talk to them about it then you got in trouble. So I avoided all of them like the plaque!! I got away with it until they let me go in August 2013 with all the other supposedly "part-time" employers. That was the best thing that ever happened to me. Good Luck.
Boy wish it was me - Mel123
[ In Reply To ..]I just got let go by my company reducing head count. I begged for more more, never had an email response. I got canned during Medical Transcription week, 5/20... Even missed my aunt's funeral to work and only to miss it to get fired basically!! I repeatedly asked for a different account, different secondary account and that is what I got... Looking for a job now... enjoy the OT because some of us are just wishing for something like that!!Feel blessed.
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