Overtime

Where the overtime is not directly related to activities begun by an officer during the officer’s regular shift, and where the planned overtime is anticipated to be four (4) hours or more in duration, the overtime shall be offered, in the order of seniority, to officers in the reporting unit. Once each eligible officer has had the opportunity to work shift overtime in a pay period, officers may once again use their seniority to work shift overtime as described above, and the seniority…

Overtime In the United States, freedom of speech is a right inscribed in the laws which govern and protect the land. Meaning we, as citizens, are entitled to what would be considered a privilege in many other countries. It is this right, however, which has prompted the violence and divide seen in college campuses. Not the unification much anticipated. Freedom of speech has been made the villain, it seems, standing in the way of the Leftists at Berkeley. Protest groups and their need for “closed…

Overtime self-governing structures have helped the evolution of the role politics and government play in a society. Self-government is a system where the people of a country or state make decisions for themselves and aren’t under complete rule of just one person. Democratic and republican governments are based off of the beliefs in self-governments. Colonial political developments were influenced by traditions from their mother country- England, as well as ideas from the Age of Enlightenment,…

Change in Views Overtime Langston Hughes had a rather difficult life in post-war United States, as with the United States being a rather racist society, excluding and handicapping all races besides white. Hughes, being partially African American, White American, and Native American, Hughes experienced the worst of the worlds firsthand. He was under the stereotypes all the time, it be African American stereotypes, or Native American stereotypes. As a result of this racism he endured, Hughes…

Overtime careers, and the tasks asked of these careers, changes immensely. The most drastic changes can be the salary, education, outlook, and skills required. One career that has experienced all of these changes is a Food and Drug Administration employed meat inspector. Not to long ago, to become a meat inspector the only education required was roughly 9 weeks of training. That has now since changed. Now a bachelors in Biological, Mathematical, Physical, or Agricultural sciences. The…

Although John Knowles’s novel, A Separate Peace, is set in the midst of WWII, there is a lack of the typical violence and combat associated with the war. However, Knowles uses wartime themes to depict the personal battles the protagonist is forced to face. The most prevalent of the wartimes themes present in the main characters of the novel are feelings of hostility and enmity. This demonstrates that the war, although not physically occurring with the United States, is still taking a toll on…

carries so much hate and pain that anyone you talk to will know about it even if they haven’t experienced it themselves. But what is addiction? Many argue that it’s dependency on a substance. Others believe that it can be dependency on activities. Overtime however it has been determined that addiction can be activities and substances so then how does TV fit into this. Can you be addicted to TV and if you can is it a serious addiction? Marie Winn begins her piece with the same question. She…

the new regulation of overtime pay is highly needed. The aforementioned adjustment in 2004 allowed employers through "duties test" to prevent many employees such as executives, professionals, and administrative, from being eligible for that overtime payment. Furthermore, through time and annual salary increases, the share of workers who are eligible for overtime pay has significantly decreased, according to the Labor Department, 60% of salaried workers were eligible for overtime while currently…

I started working in nursing in 1998 as a CNA in a local nursing home. The nursing home I worked in did not require mandatory overtime for nursing staff. Nurses and CNAs could volunteer to stay over and work if they wanted. If staffing could not be found, everyone just had to work short. This was not a very big issue at the time and we usually had enough staffing to cover the facility, but things have changed and most facilities are short nursing staff. The last two facilities that I worked at…

right as an employee was being infringed by Food Lion Incl. Davis claimed that he was not compensated for the overtime he worked for in pursuit of meeting the set target by the effective scheduling system dictating the weekly volume to be processed. Food Lion incl. on his part claims that it has a policy which prohibits her employee from working overtime. Therefore, if Davis worked overtime, it was from his wish since he was aware of the policy. The defendant claims though Davis was the meat…