I am an EMT in Connecticut. I have worked for American Ambulance (now a division of Hartford Health) for over ten years. As far as I know, I am an hourly employee. I am paid bi-weekly. If I work 35 hours one week, and 45 hours the next, they pay me for 80 hours at my normal hourly rate. I only earn overtime hours after eighty. I have looked into this and there are a lot of confusing carve-outs for certain types of employee such as "tours of duty" for certain rescue and fire-suppression jobs, and the "8/80 rule" 7(j) of the FLSA, for hospitals and residential care establishments - but none of this seems to apply to me. I don't think I'm engaged in a "tour of duty" because I'm paid overtime after 80, but I don't appear to qualify for the 8/80 rule because I'm not working in a hospital or care facility (although we of course have close dealings with both). I just need some help trying to figure out if I've been paid properly over this past decade.
I am an EMT in Connecticut. I have worked for American Ambulance (now a division of Hartford Health) for over ten years. As far as I know, I am an hourly employee. I am paid bi-weekly. If I work 35 hours one week, and 45 hours the next, they pay me for 80 hours at my normal hourly rate. I only earn overtime hours after eighty. I have looked into this and there are a lot of confusing carve-outs for certain types of employee such as "tours of duty" for certain rescue and fire-suppression jobs, and the "8/80 rule" 7(j) of the FLSA, for hospitals and residential care establishments - but none of this seems to apply to me. I don't think I'm engaged in a "tour of duty" because I'm paid overtime after 80, but I don't appear to qualify for the 8/80 rule because I'm not working in a hospital or care facility (although we of course have close dealings with both). I just need some help trying to figure out if I've been paid properly over this past decade.