Then at 7:00 monday morning his boss tells him he’s changing his shifts to days, and to come back tuesday morning at 7:00a.m.
After working 8 days straight, how many days off did the employee receive?
I say 0! The employee worked 8 hours on monday (from 12 midnight until 7a.m.,the shift that started sunday at 11) and has to return on tuesday. There’s no day off. The boss says there is a day off, as the hours on monday count as sundays shift, the previous day, and the employee doesn’t have to do monday nights shift (starting at 11p), therefore the employee is getting 1 day off.:eek:
This, by the way, isn’t happening to me, but to my friend. However, several years ago my boss tried to pull the same kind of nonesense on me, so I’m passionate about the issue.
I say the number of days off is zero. I’m putting this here because if his boss can debate the issue, maybe we can too.
I agree, the employer is trying to pull a fast one. a day off would be that the employee arrives tues at 11:00 PM. To do a shift change with a day off would mean that the emplyee arrives wed morn at 7:00 AM.
The employee had one 24 hour period (one day) in which he was not scheduled to work… 7am Monday to 7am Tuesday. Brutal hours though, no matter how you slice it. Hope your buddy made lots of money.
Question - does the number of days off matter under the terms of your friend’s employment?
I would imagine that, on paper, this would make the number of days off 1 (as most companies have shifts that start on a particular day be counted entirely on that day for simplicity - that is, if you work 10pm to 6am on Sunday night through Monday morning, it’s booked as Sunday). It’s still a pretty nasty schedule - a day off, indeed! He’s going to have to brutally change his sleep schedule and that’s how he will probably spend that ‘day off’.
If, in a common 8-4 job an employee would leave the place of employment at the end of the day (4 PM) they would then re-appear the following morning (8 AM) right so far? the absence is 16 hrs.
If they are then taking a day off the absence is the 16 hrs plus the 24 you speak of. This is what is meant by a day off. They are not expected to arrive at 4 PM the next day.
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