Recall to Work – Overtime

There are many and varied reasons why employees are required to work overtime at all different times of the day and night. A lot of overtime is worked at times when employees should normally be asleep. Sometimes employees are required to continue working after their usual knock-off time or to come in early to work and then work on through the day. Sometimes employees are recalled to the workplace to perform a particular task outside of their ordinary hours and after they have left the workplace. Depending upon when overtime is performed and whether it is performed contiguously with an employee’s ordinary hours, the amount of overtime payment can vary considerably.

Getting it right the first time is important to the maintenance of good staff morale. There is nothing that annoys an employee more than when they have been recalled to work after hours and then the payroll officer messes up the overtime calculations and does not pay them correctly for the time worked.

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