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mhoopes
Guest
New Jersey
I work for a fire department as a non firefighter. Under my contract I have a yearly base “salary” stated on 2080 hours / year. Since I do not apply as a salary employee, any hours over 40/week is considered overtime. The problem is that recently the work week has changed from 40/ week to a 3 week schedule. Week 1: 36 hours, Week 2: 36 hours, Week 3: 48 hours, this equals 1904 hours / year with the same listed “salary”.
The employer is now using the 8 hours of overtime in the 3rd week worked to make up the difference in the first 2 weeks of missed hours to equal the yearly base rate salary as stated in the contract. It is my understanding that the base rate salary is to be made up from non overtime hours and any overtime is to be just that, time over the new schedule of 1904 hours / year.
This in turn also reduces my yearly pension earnings as overtime is not calculated as part of it and lowers the amount of longevity.
Is this legal and if not how do I fix it?
I work for a fire department as a non firefighter. Under my contract I have a yearly base “salary” stated on 2080 hours / year. Since I do not apply as a salary employee, any hours over 40/week is considered overtime. The problem is that recently the work week has changed from 40/ week to a 3 week schedule. Week 1: 36 hours, Week 2: 36 hours, Week 3: 48 hours, this equals 1904 hours / year with the same listed “salary”.
The employer is now using the 8 hours of overtime in the 3rd week worked to make up the difference in the first 2 weeks of missed hours to equal the yearly base rate salary as stated in the contract. It is my understanding that the base rate salary is to be made up from non overtime hours and any overtime is to be just that, time over the new schedule of 1904 hours / year.
This in turn also reduces my yearly pension earnings as overtime is not calculated as part of it and lowers the amount of longevity.
Is this legal and if not how do I fix it?