Legislation on overtime pay?

I did have a guy bring deli sandwiches from home for both of us! They were really good, but I didn’t realize at the time that he was just trying to save time. Lol

 

My company already has two different tiers where you get paid OT after 8 and another where you get paid OT after 45 hours.

The crappiest start times usually end up with OT after 8 while everyone else gets a late start time that gets OT after 45 hours.

This is how our barn is set up and any new changes to the federal labour laws won't effect us much.

As for everyone else, companies have to compete for both labour and balancing costs. If you enjoy a high hourly rate but only get OT after 60 hours, this swap might actually hurt you.

So they might have to loosen their purse strings and pay OT, but that extra labour costs will usually be balanced out in fewer or more expensive benefits or lower top rate wages. Best case scenario is you will make the same, worst case is that companies will exploit the new changes and pay less. This will happen in reduction of hours or just lower overall hourly pay.

 

YRC/Holland get OT after 8 hours a day, and at our terminal ( I'm sure its the same at all of them ) people abuse the hell out of it. Since they can't use cameras, gps, or anything else to punish a driver, take an hour to hook to their trailer and leave the yard when their trailer was ready when they got there, take 2-3 hours to load their peddle/break a trailer, guys will just sit at customers for 30-45 minutes at each stop, there is no recourse for returned freight/missed appointments, we have guys who will literally sit in trailers on frieght doing nothing to get their 10 hours in, walk around with bills on the dock like they are reading bills for another driver or looking for freight. So yeah, might as well let everyone else in on the abuse.

 

Sounds like a company problem. If the management cared they could easily implement quotas or figure out how long tasks should take on average.

 

They are working on it for dock work as they just implemented a computer system for moving freight on the dock, so there isn't a past practice covering it. But for deliveries depending on the terminal, the dayton terminal being one of them, because they haven't ever tracked or had quotas for deliveries they can't implement them without negotiations with the union because of past practice covering it. It also doesn't help that in the contract it states they can't use, cameras in trucks, gps, eld, or anything else to punish a driver unless a legal violation occured.

 

All the Holland/Reddaway trucks have Omnitracks. If a TM really cared about productivity they could pull up the data and compare it to the driver's workflow. I've also seen TMs contacting customers to see how much time drivers are spending in their yards after being loaded/unloaded.

The only problem I have is the satellite pings aren't that accurate and if you are in an area with high rise buildings, Omnitracks will "stale" your location even though you are moving. My old boss called me out on it saying I was sitting around for 45 minutes at each stop when in reality it failed to show the one or two stops I was doing in-between.

 

clock milkers lol

 

We had a guy that would get on and off at every ramp on the way back to the plant every day.

Good for another 25 to 45 minutes.