Need wording for # of Hours

kdspa

Here's a silly one for you:

Most of the employees in our organization are hourly. For the past 30-some years, the number of hours for full-time positions has been stated in newspaper ads and job descriptions as "37.5 hours per week." The reason for this is that we have 30-minute, unpaid lunches.

When I first started here (~2 years ago) the "37.5 hours" thing seemed odd. But, now that I'd like to fix it, I've been looking at our "37.5 hours per week" so long, I can't remember how most companies word it. For those of you with unpaid lunch breaks, how do you express the number of hours in a work week?

SMace

We just say full-time.

marc

We define full time as 30 hours or more per week.

NaeNae55

In an ad we say full time. In our Employee Manual we define full and part time. Full time here is 36 hours per week. That is, if you are scheduled 36 hours or more per week you are full time. (Almost all of our jobs are scheduled 40. If we were not owned by a hospital, I would probably word our definition differently.)

Good luck!


Nae

WT

Why not just say 40 hours a week is the standard work week? The unpaid lunch does not make it 42.5 because it is unpaid time. The only way you will get in trouble is if you try to direct the workforce during lunch. They can eat if they like, leave the workplace, take a nap, or anything else they want.

E Wart

It sounds like you are asking for an ad. I would just say "Full Time". You are paying by the character and the 37.5 hours per week would be expensive. You can define "full time" either in your hand book or just face to face with the applicant when you cover time worked/hours/start-stop time, etc. Don't try to "overdo" the ad.
E Wart

kdspa

Thanks, as always, for your feedback! We'll just use "Full Time" for ads, but mostly I'm looking for the best definition for our policy manual.

For those of you who say you define full time as "xx" number of hours (36, 30, 40, etc), are you referring to the number of hours scheduled (9-5;8 hrs) or the number of hours worked (9-12, then 12:30-5;7.5 hrs)?

marc

Normally scheduled hours.

neveradull

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We say:Normal work hours are 8-4:30 with thirty minutes for lunch, Monday through Friday.

dixied

We also have a 37.5 hr. work week. I make sure that applicants interviewing for hourly positions are aware of this. 40 hrs. per week vs. 37.5 hr. at an hourly rate does make a difference.
Our employee manual states: "Our normal office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on those holidays observed by the company. The standard lunch period is one hour."