Labor Question.... Do Hourly employess on shift during Daylight savings Time change lose an hour of pay ?

[cbelt3]

Just wondering...

[DavidS]

I'm not sure, but when I was doing residency, it always seemed that I was on call or working in the ER in the fall (so I had to work an extra hour) and had the day off in the spring when we went back to EDT.

[kanesa]

The night shift has to cover the hour with paid time in the spring and they get an hour of overtime in the fall.

[Acer]

Hospital shift work is this way in my experience: one less paid hour in spring, one extra paid hour in fall, but only when you happen to work those shifts.

[mikebw]

If you are part of a union then most likely you cannot be paid for less than 8 hours of work, so with DST you get paid for an extra hour, and then in the fall you get paid for 9 hours.

[Fred_Also]

I worked non-union major factory and we always got 8 hours pay for the 7 hour midnight to 8am shift. Going the other way, we got 1 hour over time for the shift in the fall.


Fred

[NewtonMP2100]

......not sure this works for the person(s) that work for 10 cents a dance......

[tenders]

When I was in the Navy when we adjusted clocks in the middle of the night the watch on duty just sucked up an extra hour going West and got a short watch going East. The watches were staggered across 3 or 4 teams or sections who covered 5 or 7 watches a day so nobody "always" got a long or short watch.

I was in the Pacific so short watches were a sign we were headed home.

[cbelt3]

tenders- what did you do when you crossed the Date Line ?

I know, I know... those wild ceremonies...

[OWC Jamie]

One of my sisters' boyfriend works a weekend shift and they change the clock between shifts rather than at 2.