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.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    It’s based on how you’re classified. OP sounds like an administrator /non sales professional/computer professional of some kind, so no they do not qualify for OT by federal standards.

    Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA, which was included in the original Act in 1938, exempts from the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements “any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity[.]” [Source]

    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      computer professional of some kind

      If someone really wanted to hurt big tech, they’d be working to remove this profession from the list

    • Washedupcynic@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      I work for the legeslature, so there are actually state laws on the books about every aspect of our jobs, OT, PTO, ect. We don’t qualify for FMLA. After burning through all our accrued time due to illness, we can apply for extra paid sick time. We do have paid family leave, which is like FMLA to care for family, and that is at 60% salary as needed, and we also have parental leave when you adopt/make a baby, 12 weeks at 100% salary.

      • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        I work at a local university, so despite not being considered a state employee (with regard to our state laws), I am a state employee. I completely get the special rules we have to follow that normal employees don’t. For example, I can’t unionize.