My boss works for the government in a somewhat high profile position. She has to keep things legal. She absolutely shocked me when she told us (her nanny team of 3) that she will not pay extra OT anymore for the hours we work beyond our contracted hours. She says we have to take time off instead.
It's illegal to bank hours. It's illegal to not pay OT for hours worked over 40. I told her this and she doesn't care.
The nanny team are going crazy, because we cannot work out on how to take our time off because no one is allowed to cover the other, otherwise it would create a snowball effect.
My big question is... because OT pay is 1.5x, should we then get 1.5x time off? So if we worked an additional 2 days, we should get 3 days off in trade.
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