Q: I started work at 10pm Sunday and didnt end till 4pm Monday.Is that considered 1 or 2 work days. I normally work 8-5 m
I started the night before because I had to travel (which I get paid for), but my boss says it counts as 2 workdays for overtime and double time purposes.
A:
Your boss is right. Overtime is calculated based on workdays, not shifts. The default workday starts at midnight. Unless your employer has chosen a different 24 hour period as its workday, when you start at 10 pm and work past midnight, the first two hours of the shift is in one workday and the remainder in the next workday. If you worked a different shift on that Sunday earlier in the day, you would add all of the hours worked in that workday to determine if you have a right to overtime.
Good luck to you.
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