Day rate pay with overtime

Its day rate pay... Anything the company decides to GIVE you on top of that is a gift. Ive worked day rate jobs before, I always look at the per day pay and ask myself, "Am I comfortable working 12 to 14 hours a day, six days a week for that amount of money amd no more?" If the answer is not 100% yes, then I look elsewhere.

 

Way I read it, OP only gets paid $9/hr TOTAL for each hour above and beyond 40 hours/week. I hope that's not the case because that's a pretty raw deal.

 

DAY RATE... Take the 40 hour week notion out of your head and place it firmly in the garbage because the job pays DAY RATE.

 

Ummm, technically I didn't "accept" it. They told me I got paid overtime, I incorrectly assumed it would be straight pay because I've never worked a day rate job and didn't know I had to have this spelled out for me.

 

Ding ding ding! You read it correctly.

 

I understand the concept of day rate. What I don't understand is that when they told me I would ALSO be paid overtime, that it could be at a rate less than what I get paid hourly. My pay stub DOES LIST an hourly rate even though I get paid $800/wk.

 

Yup. That’s what the new small fleet owners are going to get in trouble for. Cents per mile pay and Commission pay are different from Hourly pay. Hourly pay is subject to Fair Labor standards. The Department of Labor clearly states which CDL truckers are exempt from overtime pay if they are hourly. But I’m assuming it’s a local truck doing deliveries, then the overtime pay is 1.5 x Original hourly rate.

 

I drive a garbage truck for a company that does business in like 7 states.

 

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