Dive Brief:
- In 18 days, Daylight Savings Time ends and employers with non-exempt employees will encounter one of fall's common scheduling and compensation problems.
- Setting the clock back an hour from 3 am to 2 am on Nov. 6 means some employees will work 9 hours. To avoid the additional pay, some companies will adjust the time a shift starts and ends.
- That hour then must get factored in when establishing employees overtime rates.
Dive Insight:
Next year, solving for the additional hour may be complicated by FLSA. Unless workers schedules are adjusted, the hour from 2 am to 3 am would count as overtime.
According to some studies, when people lose an hour of sleep it can lead to poor health and an increase in car accidents as people rush and scurry to get to work.
Come back in March when we spring forward and for a scheduling and pay issues, but in reverse.