We’re in CA
This might be confusing but I’ll try to explain is as simple as I can. My mom works as a caregiver and recently the woman who worked after her quit, so her job asked to cover both shifts making her new schedule 8am-8pm for two weeks (she does not take a lunch break). Obviously she only did it because she would be getting 4 hours of overtime per day.
Here’s the thing, her pay checks are from the 1st-15th and then from the 16th-30/31st. When she received her paycheck she realized that the second week in which she did OT was divided, because of the way her pay checks work, into two separate weeks. And since she only gets paid OT after 40 hours worked and not 8, they managed to make it into two weeks in which she did not work 40 hours.
So Monday through Wednesday was considered “one week” in which she worked 3 12hr shifts, and Thursday and Friday “another week” where she worked 2 12hr shifts and did not get paid overtime at all when she worked 60 hours that week!! The hours were just input as regular hours and her job just sent an explanation on how overtime works.
She was just trying to help them and they do this shit. Doesn’t seem right.