I work for a government agency. I’m required to give my state agency 35 hours per week, 7 hours a day. I’m salary, so if I work overtime I don’t get extra money. I do get 1 hour of vacation for every hour extra I work. The catch to get that OT is you have to have worked 35 hours that week. If you take PTO or call in sick during the week you did ot, you won’t accrue that bonus pto
past period I had 14 hours of PTO scheduled. Earlier in the week I did 4 hours of OT over 2 different days to make sure all duties were taken care of because I’m doing the job of 3 people right now. I checked with the payroll people, and they said it was ok to remove/save 4 hours of PTO since I worked 4 OT on different days. Basically, I save 4 PTO hours in exchange for not getting credit time for the OT I did.
Cue my boss. He refused to sign off on my time sheet. According to him, every work day must have 7 hours accounted for, doesn’t matter that you have OT time on other days. This was a direct contradiction to what payroll said was ok. FUCK YOU PAUL. I will never work a single minute of OT for you ever again. Shit doesn’t get done? I’m all out of fucks. Fire me when I am the only one running shit. End rant.
Talk to someone at the unemployment office in your state. A “salary” is usually figured at 40 hours a week so ANYTHING after that is overtime. A boss refusing to sign your time sheet is a red flag they’ve seen before.
I work for our elected officials. We have our own lawyers for ethics issues, and they are in the process of being notified. It’s likely they will put out an internal memo to remind everyone. This isn’t the first time it’s happened in our agency. Our agency allows women 4 hrs off to get a breast cancer screening, and men 4 hrs off to get a prostate screening. I had an elected official refusing to sign a time sheet because they felt 4 hours was excessive. I told that elected official they were in a position to effect actual change of the law, and until then, the ethics lawyers would be in contact. What will likely happen, is that Ethics, legal, and payroll will correct the time sheet after the fact, and refund me those hours.