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| Thread ID: 122802 | 2012-01-13 20:17:00 | Overtime for after hours emails? | johcar (6283) | PC World Chat |
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| 1253912 | 2012-01-13 20:17:00 | www.stuff.co.nz I (www.stuff.co.nz)nteresting.... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1253913 | 2012-01-13 20:58:00 | Well if you have to respond to an email maybe, but otherwise no one forces you to read an email. Many IT departments provide 24 x 7 coverage and we have to have someone respond to events as they happen. This is of course why you set up a roster for on call work so only one person has the inconvenience to respond to minor alerts. At our place you get an allowance for being on call whether you get called or not - then you get paid if you have to actually do something to fix a problem. |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1253914 | 2012-01-13 21:06:00 | I'm a contractor so it doesn't really affect me - if I do some work, there is an invoice for that time. I just thought it was an interesting development for permies (in Brazil, at this stage at least) and thought it might generate some discussion on what constitutes work and how much you would have to do to justify overtime (aside from the pre-arranged on-call scenario).... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1253915 | 2012-01-13 21:36:00 | Wish you hadn't bought that up johcar .... now wainui will be sending himself emails all night and claiming the overtime ... :D | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1253916 | 2012-01-13 21:38:00 | If this was law in NZ Id probably be a millionaire by now. | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 1253917 | 2012-01-13 21:51:00 | agreed Rob. i check my work emails every day but how do you claim ot for 20 seconds? If the perverbial has hit the fan then thats different | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1253918 | 2012-01-13 22:22:00 | Some people are on a salary rather than being paid by the hours worked. I am paid by the hour and according to my work contract if I am called out on my days off I am entitled to a minimum of three hours. I do occasionally send and receive work related emails on my days off but I do not bother claiming extra wages for this. Quite often people are called at their home phone number when off duty for quick answers to work related questions. I suspect that few people would bother to charge their boss for this. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1253919 | 2012-01-13 22:35:00 | What about the other side of the coin, if answering work emails after hours constitutes overtime, does this mean that answering personal emails/ phonecalls during worktime constitues time off? and the employer should be able to deduct payments | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1253920 | 2012-01-13 22:44:00 | What about the other side of the coin, if answering work emails after hours constitutes overtime, does this mean that answering personal emails/ phonecalls during worktime constitues time off? and the employer should be able to deduct payments Smoking breaks deducted perhaps? - I like where this is going . . . |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1253921 | 2012-01-13 22:50:00 | Before 0700 hrs after 1700 hrs week days, 1200 hrs Sat its now $100 for me to just put my boots on, $350 on a stat day. Non account people, out of towners, people with accents, owners of CATs, American trucks, German rollers, small machines with oil leaking underneath, Bobcats its: sorry I am too busy have a nice day. |
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