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Do you know of any job, where it is against the law to work over time?

Asked by SQUEEKY2 (23403points) August 22nd, 2014

And the employee can face stiff fines from the Government for doing it?

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LuckyGuy's avatar

Truck drivers
Commercial Pilots
Train operators/engineers

I can think of a lot of jobs where we don’t get paid for working overtime, but that does not count.

I wish they had that rule for hospital residents and doctors.

SQUEEKY2's avatar

Very true, I too wish it included healthcare workers as well.

ucme's avatar

Grave Digger, then becomes a Grave Robber & we can’t be having that.

longgone's avatar

Air traffic controllers, I’ve heard.

CWOTUS's avatar

I don’t know of any that prevent working any overtime, but I know of several (@LuckyGuy named most of them) which prevent working in excess of some regulated maximum overtime.

LuckyGuy's avatar

Lawyers – They can’t book more than 24 hours per day.

~ Although I’m sure they’ve pushed through law that permits booking 15 minutes minimum for an email. They can pay a spammer $50 to send an email to 96 clients and book for 24 hours while sitting on the beach in Bermuda.

SQUEEKY2's avatar

@CWOTUS my regular work day is 13.5 hours, anything over 14 is illegal so what is over time in my situation?

Cupcake's avatar

@LuckyGuy Residents can’t work more than 80 hours per week.

jca's avatar

80 hours per week, although an improvement from the past, is still ridiculous.

LuckyGuy's avatar

@Cupcake Thanks for the reference. Excerpting from your ref:
VI.G.1:Maximum Hours of Work Per Week
“Duty hours must be limited to 80 hours per week, averaged over a four-week period,
inclusive of all in-house call activities and all moonlighting.”

Duty hours do not include reading, studying, and academic preparation time, such as
time spent away from the patient care unit preparing for presentations or journal club.”
———-
Note that is the AVERAGE. Some weeks can be 100 hours if followed by a “quiet, relaxing” 60 hour week! No wonder they are found sleeping in the utility closet or on the cot in the maintenance room! How does a schedule like that benefit the patient? Would you want someone who has only been getting 3–4 hours sleep a night closing you up after surgery? Yikes!
(Hmmm… Now where did I put that extra sponge?)

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