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Originally Posted by lazypucker
My buddy's wife is a nurse, and I was told that if you have an 8-hr shift, you may have the opportunity to pick up another 8-hr shift right after if they are short-staffed. So it will be 16 consecutive hours. But the thing is that those 16 hours will be paid at OT rate, which is triple.
So work 16 hours straight will net you 48 hours of pay. Do this 3 times a week and take the rest off and you will be paid like 500 hours a month. Say the hourly rate of a nurse is $50, this translate to $25,000 per month....
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This sounds wrong. I can’t see how an employee would be paid overtime for their regular hours simply for agreeing to work OT. Also I believe the OT rate for nurses is double time not triple time, that being the case the employee working a 16 hour shift would receive 8 hours regular and 8 hours double time, so 24 hours of pay total. What struck me as the biggest red flag while reading your example is that your friend’s wife used a regular 8 hour shift as her example when to my knowledge most nurses aren’t scheduled for 8 hour shifts.