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Full time in the US is 40h though so 160h every 4 weeks is full time work and any overtime would put you above 160h over 4 weeks... Outside of that then sure your employer should pay you overtime on a daily/weekly basis and not over 4 weeks, but if it's only about taxes then whatever, it doesn't make sense to not pay taxes on it anyway.
Right, but they can abuse you for short stints of time. Compare that to something like the laws when I worked in California. Anything over 8 hours in a day was overtime, anything over 12 hours in a day was double time, and anything over 40 hours in a week was overtime. This means if they overwork you even in just one day, you're getting paid extra. With something being worded 160h in 4 weeks they can overwork you for a big event and then give you a bunch of time off and never have to pay you extra.
mm businesses where continuity is really important might love this. Hire enough people so that everyone works 12hr shifts but don’t schedule anyone enough days a month to trigger additional costs
Which is why I said it only makes sense if it's for the taxes thing, for everything else you should be paid overtime when you're working more than you're supposed to, there's no questions there.
I'm not sure I understand. Why would that make sense for taxes? If it's overtime, it should be overtime...
If they want to exempt overtime from taxes they can manage it however they want since it doesn't make sense to exempt overtime from taxes in the first place.
Now as for what counts as overtime when we're talking about when you start getting paid more for the time you're working? That's whenever you're working more than you're supposed to.
“Give you time off”, like just not scheduling you do you don’t get paid. Abuse for real!!
No, it's avoiding paying overtime for when they had you work overtime... Here, I'll be even more explicit for you. Imagine your company has an event and has you work 60 hours one week, but then only gives you 20 hours the next week. You worked 20 hours of overtime in the first week, but they then avoided paying you overtime by giving you less time the second week. Do you not see how averaging out the time over a longer period is in the interest of the company and not the worker?
I realize now my comment could be taken both ways, but I agree with you. They’ll get around the overtime requirement by giving you “time off”, that you won’t be paid for.
So you suffer your 12 hours day, and then they just take you off the schedule for a day later, which also fucks your over.
Okay, yeah your comment wasn't very clear.