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After college I worked about a year in a Union Shop... great experience and everyone knew the rules... just needed to look it up or ask the steward when in doubt.
For 10 years I had my own company which I still have on a greatly reduced scale.
For 25 years I was salaried exempt management holding a Director Title which was eliminated.
Since the merger 9 months ago my position was reclassified as hourly with time card and we are are not a Union Hospital.
My question is regarding Call Back and Overtime as an hourly employee.
We have had a rash of early morning hour attempted break ins (2) and a weekend emergency Boiler repair... over the last two weeks.
The second break in I actually caught the guy... followed the trail of blood from where he cut himself after smashing a window and crawling through at 1 am on Sunday... the police, clean up and boarding/securing the area took 4 hours... the steam boiler was more involved as I had to replace a pump Sunday so as the surgery schedule would not be impacted for Monday...
The Hospital Admin called me in and praised me for my efforts BUT said paying me overtime is a problem... believe me... I would rather have stayed in bed instead of apprehending a 3rd strike petty felon or cancelled my family plans for Sunday fixing the boiler.
Anyway... going forward... anytime I work outside my 5 am to 1:30 pm daily shift will have to be taken away from my next scheduled shift... so if I have 5 hours of Sunday Call In... my regular 8 hour Monday shift will be reduced by 5 hours to 3 hours... making it 5 am to 8 am...
Sounds odd to me but this is the way it has to be... having no experience working hourly outside of a Union Shop... is this typical?
For 25 years... I had plenty of Call... but being salaried it was simply my job... no matter when or how often... I was expected to manage my own time and get the job done.
Have to admit I hate spending time in front of the time clock waiting to clock back from mandatory meal break...
Admin's goal is Perfect Time Cards... but I don't see how this is possible for hourly engineering without 24/7 onside engineering presence.
Corp has said it is the responsibility of salaried managers to respond to after hour events... but 100% of the management is female and they bluntly refuse to respond to any after hours event or they live a great distance away... I live close and have been doing the response for 25 years.... the only thing that changed is now there is a time card record of it.
Post Script... HR says I am under no obligation to respond outside my shift and only those receiving On-Call pay are required to be available... and my position does not qualify... however I am the only local contact for Police, Fire, Security, etc...
For 10 years I had my own company which I still have on a greatly reduced scale.
For 25 years I was salaried exempt management holding a Director Title which was eliminated.
Since the merger 9 months ago my position was reclassified as hourly with time card and we are are not a Union Hospital.
My question is regarding Call Back and Overtime as an hourly employee.
We have had a rash of early morning hour attempted break ins (2) and a weekend emergency Boiler repair... over the last two weeks.
The second break in I actually caught the guy... followed the trail of blood from where he cut himself after smashing a window and crawling through at 1 am on Sunday... the police, clean up and boarding/securing the area took 4 hours... the steam boiler was more involved as I had to replace a pump Sunday so as the surgery schedule would not be impacted for Monday...
The Hospital Admin called me in and praised me for my efforts BUT said paying me overtime is a problem... believe me... I would rather have stayed in bed instead of apprehending a 3rd strike petty felon or cancelled my family plans for Sunday fixing the boiler.
Anyway... going forward... anytime I work outside my 5 am to 1:30 pm daily shift will have to be taken away from my next scheduled shift... so if I have 5 hours of Sunday Call In... my regular 8 hour Monday shift will be reduced by 5 hours to 3 hours... making it 5 am to 8 am...
Sounds odd to me but this is the way it has to be... having no experience working hourly outside of a Union Shop... is this typical?
For 25 years... I had plenty of Call... but being salaried it was simply my job... no matter when or how often... I was expected to manage my own time and get the job done.
Have to admit I hate spending time in front of the time clock waiting to clock back from mandatory meal break...
Admin's goal is Perfect Time Cards... but I don't see how this is possible for hourly engineering without 24/7 onside engineering presence.
Corp has said it is the responsibility of salaried managers to respond to after hour events... but 100% of the management is female and they bluntly refuse to respond to any after hours event or they live a great distance away... I live close and have been doing the response for 25 years.... the only thing that changed is now there is a time card record of it.
Post Script... HR says I am under no obligation to respond outside my shift and only those receiving On-Call pay are required to be available... and my position does not qualify... however I am the only local contact for Police, Fire, Security, etc...
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