Throw away account because my main one is too easy to trace back to me.
I am the director of a home health agency. Due to short staffing that happened right before I took over, I was the only nurse that worked there for about nine months. This meant I was on call 24/7, expected to see all of the nursing patients, and needed to respond to calls within 20 minutes, etc. I am normally in a salary position, but did get paid $2/hour on-call outside of my normal Monday through Friday schedule. When I would see a patient on the weekends, I would get compensated per visit, but it ends up being less than my “hourly pay” would have been with drive time.
I was working an average of 50 to 60 hours a week. I did the math and if I were paid like the regular hourly/pay per visit nurses where I would get extra pay on the weekends and time and a half after 40 hours a week, I would’ve made an extra $40,000ish dollars in overtime. I asked my company for a one time bonus of $10,000 and have so far been brushed off.
This has left me super pissed off and bitter as I am literally the only reason the company was able to keep their doors open. If I was not there, they would’ve had a shut down and 10 other employees would have been out of a job because there was no one else who could do my job.
Aside from being a shitty employer (and me being stupid with limited boundaries), does anything seem off with labor laws that I can look into? Someone else posted recently in r/maliciouscompliance that they were salary and management told them to start keeping track of hourly work, which ultimately meant he accrued a whole lot more PTO because they accrued based on hours worked, which applies to me as well so I’m going to try to fight for that.
Since so many people here seem to know about labor laws (maybe legit, maybe not 🤣) I figured I’d ask to see if there’s anything else I’m missing! Not sure if being salary means this is all legal.
Because I know I’ll be asked why I stayed: there really was no one to fill my position and the office would’ve closed. I love all the other clinicians (PT, OT, etc) and really wanted to be a good leader for them, and didn’t want them to be out of a job. I really care about the patients. I’m in a 2 year contract with sign-on bonus, so there is an end in sight. Things have gotten better with staffing and I do like the job now that I’m working normal hours.
And yes, once I am done with my contract, I will name and shame this company!