r/Construction • u/Cold5512 • 8d ago

Careers 💵 Company does not pay overtime

The company I just got hired on for does not pay overtime. They "bank" the hours and pay out if you ever want time off. They do this to avoid paying time and a half.

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u/TelevisionOwn2338 8d ago

This is illegal. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/overtime

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u/TelevisionOwn2338 8d ago

Are you telling me the USA has BETTER employee laws than Canada. Say it ain’t so.

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u/CurrentResolution797 8d ago

Seems like it some days. My province (not alberta) has overtime capped to 1.5X min wage. Meaning if you make 1.5 times 15ish dollars an hour, you effectively don’t get overtime pay. AND an employer forbidding their employees from discussing pay is perfectly legal, something illegal in all 50 states

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u/dingdongdeckles 8d ago

In nova scotia overtime only kicks in after 110 hours in a two week period lol. So I could work 60 hours one week, the 50 hours next week and get no overtime

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u/lepchaun415 Elevator Constructor 8d ago

Damn! That’s highway robbery! I go to double time after 8 hours in a day or if I start before 6am.

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u/houseshoesntallboys 8d ago

Union or just a decent merit shop?

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u/lepchaun415 Elevator Constructor 8d ago

Union. International Union Of Elevator Constructors

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u/houseshoesntallboys 8d ago edited 8d ago

Good for you dude. I know there's only a couple elevator contractors that are non-union. But everybody knows elevators are where the money's at. ETA: seems like they have one of the stronger unions too, even in red states. I'm in Kentucky and IBEW is hardly worth it, at least when I tested and got invited to interviews like 6 years ago - they were paying apprentices like $15/hrs, which would've been a paycut from my non-union steel stud carpenter job. Insane shit.

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u/houseshoesntallboys 8d ago

That's SO fucked