If the pay period ends at midnight on Sunday, and your shift runs from, say, 10PM Saturday to 6AM Sunday, do you generally get paid for the whole shift (since it began before the end of the pay period), or do you generally only get paid for the time you worked during the pay period?
*I realize this will most likely vary from employer to employer, but I wonder if there’s a general trend.
TIA
It always counted on the card that we started on. New pay period equaled new card. As you said it would depend on how the employer wanted to handle it. If they instruct you to put it on the next week’s card and stick with it that’s what you do. They can not however switch stuff back and forth to avoid overtime and other benefits.
This will vary from employer to employer, based on how they handle payroll accounting.
Regardless of the procedure, however, they cannot refuse to pay you for hours that you legitimately worked.
Whether they pay all 8 hours on the first pay period, or all 8 on the second pay period, or 2 on the first and 6 on the second, you will ultimately wind up with the same amount of money in your pocket.
That being said, if overtime is involved the amounts may vary depending on how it is reported. However, they can’t arbitrarily change the way they handle overtime, so in the long run it will work out the same.
At my place, where the pay week ends at midnight Saturday and the record-keeping is computerized (the clocks are barcode scanners, not mechanical punches), a shift which overlaps this time is split between the two pay weeks. Two hours for Saturday night in week n, 6 hours for Sunday morning in week n+1. It can cause some fluctuation between biweekly paychecks if your days off vary, and can make the very first paycheck for a new hire be kinda crummy, but someone with steady days off will have exactly 40 hours a week despite the split.
The system is definitely not designed for third-shift workers in other ways, since they end each day at midnight-- as far as the system is concerned, I work a split shift, working 6 hours + lunch from midnight to 7 am, and then two hours without lunch from 10 pm to midnight. Asking off for a night, or needing to have my time adjusted, involves submitting requests to alter 16 hours over two days, just to get one contiguous 8-hour segment amended. And then when the time change happens… ye gads.
I worked at a company who used a 9/80 schedule (9 hour days M-Th, 8 hours every other Friday). Our pay period ended at noon on Friday, so we’d get paid 4 hours of the day on one check, the second 4 on the next one.
But from other answers above, it sounds like it depends on the employer.
We have a 24 hour operation, and our books close weekly at midnight Sunday morning. If you work, say, 10pm Saturday-6am Sunday, it all goes on the check for the day you began working.