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So much for holiday pay - Fatigued Fingers

Posted: Jul 04, 2014

So here I am, on a holiday, OOW on all my accounts. So much for that so-called holiday pay.

when you get a job, stay clocked in, do not clock out - Nuance is ripping you off

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If you are an employee, just clock in, you must be paid. They will not like it, but it is the law.

They will not pay you - Do not listen to them

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This has been tried again and again. All that will happen is that your lines for the rest of the week will figure into today's hours. So, say you typed 1500 lines per day for 4 days (6000 lines total) and you had worked 32 hours those 4 days. That's right over the minimum lines - ~187 LPH. But then you're OOW all day today, 8 hours, and are clocked in and actually waiting for work to come in. That'll just mean your 6000 lines now gets divided by 40 = 150. If most of those lines are straight transcription (unlikely, but go with this), then even with dividing it by 40, you're still above minimum wage and they don't have to pay you MUP.
Say that it's all editing. Then unless you're getting paid WAY more than the rest of us, that 6000 lines will equal about $240, which divided by 40 hours = only $6.00 an hour. So, they'd have to give you about $50 in MUP. But I can tell you from experience, if you have that much MUP, they'll look at your time card and wonder why and see you had zero lines for today but 8 hours on the clock. They'd either ask you to delete the time or give you a warning/write up.

And even if they did give you the $50 MUP, true, that's $50 more than you would have gotten, but is it worth a writeup, the low lines, etc?

They have got us in a vice grip and there's not much we can do. I mean, if these large corporations can get away with hiring all independent contractors and no employees, despite the IRS code clearly stating that these people need to be employees, not IC's, then what makes us think we're going to get anything else? As long as we make more than $7.25 (Federal minimum wage) an hour, they don't care!

If you are OOW and - are short hours, though

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As long as you are not logged in they won't divide it by 40, right?

Example: Inasmuch as I want to accrue PTO, I realized that what is the point of trying to get the 40 hours so you can accrue more PTO if your lph decreases so sharply, whether because there is no work and you are logged in OR the work you sit waiting for in drips and dregs is terrible and unfamiliar, and your lph goes way down.

I read the OOW thing again and realized they are basically giving you license to clock in, if no work check again in 15 minutes and you are free for the day - WITHOUT pay of course.

But I have taken to doing this on OOW type days and then coming back on only if my primary has a decent amount of work in it so I can get at least another hour or so of work that won't sink my lph. As far as I can tell from what I have been doing, as long as you indicate the OOW, if you are under 40 hours you are not required to take PTO and the OOW log-in/email procedure accounts for that time.

Even though you are not accruing as much PTO, what's the point of doing that when your rate will be in the toilet when you do take the PTO and also your pay will be down because of low lph?

Sometimes I can do almost as many lines in 36-38 hours as I do in 40 hours if I am not sitting there scrambling for garbage work but only log back on when I see there is enough to make it worth it. So basically it's more of a quality than quantity thing, except for the slightly less PTO accrual. Also, it spares you the demoralizing process of sitting there waiting for the odd job to come up rather than being away from the screen for awhile. I do not use Nuance benefits, however, so not sure if it would impact on that if you work under 40 hours through no fault of your own.

There have been times when I have had very low work through the week or another situation requiring me to make up time and when work is slow and you know it runs out Friday midnight that is pretty awful. You just cannot win with this company, they find a way to get you no matter which way.

In Reply To: If you are out of work and, are short hours, though - Liberty

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Regarding "But I have taken to doing this on OOW type days and then coming back on only if my primary has a decent amount of work in it so I can get at least another hour or so of work that won't sink my lph." How can you tell if you account has a decent amount of work or not in it of if you have any work assigned to you without contacting your manager?

On my platform - I can see the work

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On the different accounts. I don't usually get work assigned except at times when it is very backed up for any particular account, which has not happened for awhile. The work just comes automatically, stats, primary, secondary, etc. I believe it is first come, first serve.

You can actually see the jobs on the different accounts on my platform. You can't assign it to yourself or anything, but it is helpful to see basically how much is there.

When I do my usual shift I don't even look at it, just log on and do my 8 hours, but when there is no work and it is dribbling in, it is good to be able to know what is on there.

If I have a period of OOW on all my accounts (I have 4), when I look later on I can either just live with how ever many hours I have done and not use PTO due to the OOW, use PTO, sit there waiting for work here and there, OR wait until (if ever) the work builds up a bit on my primary, in which case I just log on and try to get up to 40 hours.

Need to pay your state minimum. sm - Anon

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Where I live it's $8, soon to be $9. State law trumps federal.

Fed min wage - burnedoutco

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What they care about is that you make the minimum wage for your state (mine is one of the highest), not the Federal min wage. So I have to get way over 200/lph on a regular basis, not easy sometimes with VR, but I have not had MUP since last October and I am retiring soon. Because I have to push so hard to get minimum wage for my state, I get a lot of nit-picking errors, commas, etc. I failed a post audit recently because of a missed "the." Don't anyone out there argue that you don't get dinged for something like a comma and "the" maybe you don't but I do, in fact "the" could have been a major error, can't remember. First holiday I have worked for a while and feel very frustrated. The last hospital I worked in was really fair the way the handled holidays. Everyone had to take turns at holidays but you only had to work 4 hours and if there was no work you still got paid. For example, if you worked your 4 hours on Thanksgiving, then you didn't have to work Christmas or New Year. Happy days!

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