entitled to over time money?

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Blossy

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Hi all

Just looking for some advice, i work a 39 hour week with overtime of 2.5 hrs weekly, up until this month i had doing alot more overtime and due to cutbacks at work our overtime has now been halved. overtime was for opening at 8.30 instead of 9am. that is fine and we were told of this so worked amonst ourselves and rotate who starts earlier. in the past few weeks we have had to stay late as we are a customer orientated position and cannot leave at exactly 5.30.
in the past 2 weeks or so myself and my colleague have worked approx 2 hours overtime between us. we never recieved any payment for this. this overtime was after 5.30 when no arrangement had been agreed. we recieved an email from our boss this morning saying that we are to leave at exactly 5.30 each eve and the manager will deal with anything afterwards. we are ok with this but i have asked are we getting paid for the overtime that has been done prior to us being told that this was a new policy. first heard of today. i got an email back witha straight answer no.
instead of rambling on and sounding pathetic by emailing back, i would appreciate any advise as to how to approac this, although the overtime is hardly worth it, its the principle of the fact that the policies cannot be changed and not told to the employees??

Any advise please??
 
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The terms & conditions of your contract of employment cannot be changed without mutual agreement between employer and employee if that's what you are saying happened here. Check out www.employmentrights.ie and/or contact NERA for advice on your statutory entitlements in such circumstances.
 
thanks! its not the terms and conditions been changed its more the implementation of new policies and we were not told of them and worked overtime and now not getting paid for it. we were not informed of the changes.??
 
Technically if no boss or manager asked or rostered you to work after 5.30 pm then they do not have to pay you. However it would be foolish as a boss not to pay this few hours as a once off to keep staff happy. I certainly would not upset good staff over a couple of hours pay

If boss has said no then best approach is probably to talk to manager on the quiet and explain that you don't want to cause a big fuss but there is a principle here. Perhaps you can negotiate a half day off in lieu or to leave early a few evenings when it is quiet etc.
 
thanks badge! its really frustrating because there is the two of us in this and we had only recieved a letter of praise from the Directors golfing buddy yesterday saying how proffessional, effiecient pleasant etc. So like u i dont understand why they are not giving us our measley few pence to keep us happy, as i said i understand the way the times are going and cut backs are becoming the norm is businesses, but keeping your staff happy should be up there too! and we wouldnt have been asked to stay on but i am here approx 18mths and never told to leave at 5.30 if we were needed to stay on and i always got paid ??
 
Are we talking about 2 hours between you or 20 hours (2 x 10)?

If it's 1 hour each, have you ever asked for an hour off to do something on company time and been paid? Or been late and been paid?
If not why don't you come in an hour late one morning or take a couple of long lunches.

In the greater scheme of things we're talking about 1 hour in a year of 1750 + hours.

You'll probably do more harm pursuing this than the few euros you'll get if successful.
 
You were damn lucky to ever get paid overtime. Most people I know don't get it. Time in Lieu is the best they can hope for, and only at most 50% of it.

You work over your hours and hope to get a payrise/promotion because of it....if nothing happens at your next review, then back off and say you have to go at 5.30. No point in being taken advantage of if there's nothing in it for you at all....
 


Don,t think I,il be lookin, for employment in Donegal !!
 
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