Working night shift when clocks go back

[dreamer24]

I can't find a consistent answer to this online. DP is working a night shift tonight as overtime when the clocks go back, so he will technically end up doing 13 hours instead of 12. Will he be paid for that extra hour? Does anyone know how this works?

Thanks

Why doesn't he ask his employer? Why would Mumsnet know?

There's literally always one 🙄

Yes, thank you for that robust advice. Of course he will ask him employer when he's able to, in the meantime I just did a quite normal thing of posting on a forum online to see if anyone knows anything about this. Hope that's ok with you?

Yes I think also my toddler will be awake at 5am instead of 6am 🤦🏼‍♀️ (if I've done my working out correctly? Is it an hour later or earlier she'd wake when the clocks go back??) 😂

My DP doesn't get paid extra (emergency services). He's never on the shift where the clocks move forward. He's only ever on the one where he loses out 😑. He's not working this one for once though!

Didn't think about it affecting the toddler - urgh, we have that to look forward to at about 4:30am then.

Then he's working an extra hour so should be paid for an extra hour. That hour didn't not exist

Yes, they'll sleep the same number of hours but it'll be an hour earlier on the clock. Then, they'll be staying up an hour later at night and probably in a grump about it.

Unlike me, who's kids have flown the nest and I'll get an extra hour in bed 😀 (reality, I'll just be up earlier as bladders never get the memo)

I had not thought about the impact on animals, yet another reason to have either BST or GMT all year round.

Though there are many worse examples of cruelty towards animals. Random setting off of fireworks for starters.

At my work place you can claim the extra hour as overtime, though it varies

Why wouldn't you get up earlier to feed it???

We’ve never been paid for it in the NHS but our pay isn’t docked in the spring either.

NHS we never got it , 28 yrs on wards. They just said up to u to make sure u work it when they go forward 🙄 typically the rota would be made up and no one would swap 🤬

The NHS tend not to!

This! I have tried both no pay and pay as a nurse.

Non NHS, also working tonight and no, paid as if a 12 hour shift.

If you are on minimum wage or close, you should be paid or given time in lieu or it will take you under the legal requirement.

When I worked nights for a large food retailer 10 - 8, no I didn't, I got paid for 10 hours even though I was there 11 hours, but the same thing happened six months later and I got paid for 10 even though I was there 9 hours.

But every company has a different approach.

@BeyondMyWits
Not minimum wage, he's a prison officer.

I work in the NHS and no we are not paid for the extra hour when the clocks go back, the same as we don’t lose an hours pay when they go forward.

We adjust the dog's dinner time, gradually, over a week. When the clocks go forward you can see him smirking as he thinks we're confused.

In nursing he wouldn't get paid the extra hour as he has the chance to work an hour less when the clocks go the other way.

That's ridiculous

That should be illegal

When I was a student nurse, I was on nights when the clocks went back. We asked if we were paid for the extra hour and were told no, we weren’t, because staff on nights when the clocks went forward weren’t docked an hour’s pay.

In practice, the staff on the wards tried to give us longer breaks, so we got an hour in the middle of the night, and half an hour later on, essentially doubling the length of breaks we got - but that only worked if the ward was quiet enough.

I do remember how dispiriting it was, to see the clock go back at 2am, and know that the end of the night was now 7 hours away, not 6!

My dad lost an hour then 6 months later he’d gain an hour. It evens out.

ridiculous you aren't the same staff

Only if you're still working there on that day in 6 months time. Only if you're working at the clock change time. Only if you're not dead.