Nurses to probably lose OT pay,, (Say byebye to Florida *

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/overtimepay/mythsfactsheet.cfm

Myths and Facts on the Bush Administration’s New Overtime Regulati



MYTH: Under the Bush Administration’s new overtime laws, very few if any workers making between $23,660 and $100,000 a year will lose overtime eligibility.

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alary Basis Test—The old rule required an employer to pay a worker a salary in order to deprive the worker of the right to overtime pay. The new rule (541.604) defines salary as an hourly wage, so long as the employer guarantees a minimum wage that bear a loose relationship to hourly compensation.
EXAMPLE—Registered nurses (RNs) are very likely to lose their overtime pay rights. RNs’ work satisfies the duties test for professionals, but they are paid hourly, and they don’t have much freedom to come and go. If they come in to work late, they are docked an hour’s pay, for example. They used to receive overtime pay for the many hours of overtime they are required to perform. Under the new rule, they are likely to lose that right.


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IMHO it is not only that Nurses will lose OT but the standard work week will be 45-50 hours for them....

[Racenut20]

1. RN's and overtime

As a Nursing Supervisor, the hospital my wife worked in thought little of making the midnight Saturday call for her. They were given OT, paid via compensation days. After just less than a year with them, when she left for maternity leave for our first son, she had accumulated 31 days of compensation time, probably to have never been realized had she not been leaving. As it was, she was paid the 31 days and thus received an additional month off.

[Florida_Geek]

2. IMHO it will not be the lost of OT pay but the

"new" 45-50 hour workweek that will become the standard in nursing.

[DemBones DemBones]

3. And people wonder why nurses leave the profession. . .

:eyes:

[Warpy]

4. I left

The 12 hour shifts got too long, and the mandatory overtime was coming 12 hours at a crack. Most nurses are already working 48 hours a week, 8 hours of it overtime. That's mandatory overtime, folks, in one of the most physically and mentally demanding jobs out there. Since the average nurse is a woman in her late 40s, I think we're close to a real meltdown, with most of us leaving the profession.

On dodge some hospitals are already using is declaring nurses "management," since we theoretically supervise nursing assistants, and putting us on salary. That means the extended hours are set into stone, and if they need us to work 60 or 72 hours a week, they'll be able to demand it with no overtime.

Screw it.