I’m getting straight time for ot. Male coworkers are getting time and a half
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I’m getting straight time for ot. Male coworkers are getting time and a half
Recently a coworker and I both worked a
Saturday. He worked 6 hours and I
worked 6 hours. He got time and a half
but I just received straight time. They
said it was because I had a day off
during that pay period. Ok, but my male
coworker also had time off the same pay
period. This has happened before to me
twice and they always have an excuse
Asked on February 18, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Pennsylvania
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
If you are being treated worse or differently than a male employee, you may have an employment discrimination claim; if you do, you can take it to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and may be entitled to compensation for the discrimination.
Make sure you actually do have a claim. For example, your employer is correct that holiday or vacation time is NOT counted in determining overtime. Even if your male colleague also had time off, it's possible he worked more that week and so earned overtime--overtime is only for working more than 40 hours in a week. For example: say you had 8 hours of paid holiday or vacation time on one day during a week, and on the other 4 regular workdays plus Saturday, worked a total of 38 hours that week--you would not get overtime. If your male colleague had his day off during a different week that pay period, but during the week you worked on Saturday, he worked 40 hours during the week and 6 hours on Saturday, he would in fact be entitled to overtime; that is because overtime is determined *per week*, not per pay period. So depending on when he had his day off, he may well have been entitled to overtime when you were not.
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