Throwaway. Thanks in advance for any advice! TL;DR at bottom.
So I work as a home-health aide while I'm in college. There are basically two ways we can be paid: Wake hours, which is full pay, and On-site, On-call which is basically half-pay. Typically I only agree to work houses with all wake hours, because this job isn't worth doing for on-call pay (which is basically you sleep at the site, while the patient is also sleeping).
There's a site I work at predominantly on weekends aside from my other, permanent shifts. This site is on a week by week basis, where I fill in as people take off work. I get paid every two weeks. Last weekend I worked an overnight shift (3pm to 9 am), and this weekend i worked second shift (3 pm to midnight). While I was working second shift, I got a text from my house manager. Text included, minus identifying info:
"Hey, bankrolled, there has been changes to the way the shift is paid. Wake Hours are: 6a-9a and 3p-11p. On Site On Call are 11p-6a. So when you clocked your time you have to clock in according to the type of shift it is.
For example, for today you would clock in wake 3p-11p, and then 11-12a on site on call."
I responded that I wasn't okay with them arbitrarily changing how they pay me for the hours I'm working after I've agreed to work them, and she responded again:
"It has always been like that at X house. We just haven't been putting it in correctly, so [Head Manager] has been going back and fixing everyone's time. [Company] is enforcing the policies and procedures that are in place."
I responded, "That may be so, but I have never been informed of this. And I can understand clocking hours differently in the future, but I expect to be paid wake hours for what I worked today and in the past."
Manager: "Take that up with [Head Manager], but I am informing you of what X plan specifies. You can read this plan for yourself and see that what I am telling you is true.
I plan to go in Monday and view the house procedures and speak with Head Manager myself. Can they do this? If they go back and change my hours for the past two weeks I'll miss almost an entire shift of pay. I plan to stop filling in shifts at this house immediately, but I don't want the hours I've already worked to be changed.
Also this is Ohio, if that helps anyone. Thanks again!
TL;DR: Two types of hours with two types of payment. Company wants to go back into and change a lot of my hours to the lower payment after I've already worked them. Is there anyway I can convince them not to?
Submitted June 01, 2018 at 09:55PM by bankrolled01 https://ift.tt/2Lh7Dy5
