Does your work offer any incentives if you do overtime/ cover for others?

[Elephantswillnever]

Just curious I have two jobs and with one if you cover it’s job and done so you finish two- three hours early but get paid till the end of the day, plus time and a half if over 42 hours. The other you get nothing extra. Sadly a colleague is ill and won’t be in over the weekend. Management have suggested that someone at least volunteers to do the essential part of the job ( an hour and a half or so at midday) but you’d only be paid for time worked.

No one lives close by so 1hr + round trip, surprisingly there are no volunteers and management is unhappy. Min wage-ish, nice job but no promotion opportunities. It’s not AIBU but is it not standard working practice to bribe your employees to help out at short notice? Especially over Mother’s Day weekend when many will have made plans to see family.

We just get our normal hourly rate. No extra for overtime, no extra for weekends or bank holidays. Very few people do anymore than their contracted hours. Also it out in the middle of nowhere, no bus route/train/not within walking or cycling distance of the nearest village etc.

We can flex our hours without any oversight, so if I work over the weekend, I just work less the next week.

We get our normal hourly rate unless they are utterly desperate. I work in healthcare so if it drops into unsafe staffing they will offer OT rate which is time and a half.

No but I'm a teacher so it goes with the job!

We wouldn't get paid overtime at my workplace. It's pretty standard with most salaried jobs, in my experience. I don't work Mondays and need to do a few bits this Monday so I'll probably finish early or take a longer lunch at some point. Maybe.

Overtime is offered to part time staff first too. Unless it's something niche that needs a particular person.

I don’t think it’s standard to bribe staff but they’re a bit daft if they don’t offer something, as management will have to cover now, won’t they? Which is one reason they are paid more in the first place.

If we do an extra day or half day (we’re all part time), we can choose to be paid at standard rate or take the time in lieu.

My company is pretty flexible, so no one minds doing an extra half hour here and there.

It depends on the project. If its a urgent/incident type scenario, generally overtime is paid. If its more run of the mill, and we need to travel outside our work hours, then we get TOIL at a time we choose.