Holiday pay

nancyp

Ok, I hope you all understand this question. To accomodate the hourly employees to let them be able to have Thursday and Friday off (instead of just Thursday) we changed work days. We worked them Sunday thru Wed. take off Thursday with pay for the 4th and take a no work day for Fri. Therefore, they have a 40 hr. work week. My question is--if an employee worked Mon. thru Sat. of last week and then started Sunday as the beginning of the week and having to work till Wednesday with Thursday off would that have to be paid time and a half? That would be 10 days straight. Have I broken any law??

Margaret Morford

When does your work week (payroll week) begin? That determines how you count the forty hours.

Margaret Morford
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nancyp

>When does your work week (payroll week) begin? That determines how
>you count the forty hours.
>
>Margaret Morford
>theHRedge
>615-371-8200
>mmorford@mleesmith.com
>[url]http://www.thehredge.net[/url]


Our payroll begins from Monday thru Sunday.

bsa

Our workweek (payroll period) is Sunday thru Saturday. Your schedule would work without overtime for us, because Sunday starts a new week. Now the previous week with 6 workdays may have some overtime. Unless you have a state law that requires overtime after X number of days in a row I don't see a problem.

nancyp

Margaret,
Our payroll is from Monday thru Sunday. Please advise.

moneyman

If I understood correct, your employee worked 40 hours from Mon-Sat, then began another 40 hours beginning Sunday. With your pay week to include Sunday, I would say that the hours worked on Sunday must be "added" to the previous Mon-Sat worked for calculating OT. I don't think you break any rules by working a person 10 days straight, however, you must remember to calculate your OT on your set work week.

Margaret Morford

Nancy,

It's a little hard for me to tell because I don't have the exact hours this employee worked each day. As I think I understand it, the employee worked Monday through Saturday. Then Sunday through Wednesday, with holiday pay on Thursday, off Friday and will not return to work until Monday. If the employee worked 8 hours each of these days and your payroll week runs Monday to Sunday, your emplyee worked 56 hours the first week and 24 hours the second (32 if you count holiday pay as hours worked). You would owe the employee 16 hours of overtime - 8 more than you anticipated for Sunday because of the way your payroll week runs. Call me about this and I'll try to help you.

Margaret Morford
theHRedge
615-371-8200
[email]mmorford@mleesmith.com[/email]
[url]http://www.thehredge.net[/url]