Impact of Daylight Savings Time on Hourly Overnight Employees
Daylight Savings Time takes effect on the second Sunday in March. That means we all move our clocks forward one hour at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 9. As a result, shift workers on duty at that time working an eight-hour shift will work only seven hours.
While some employers pay the regular eight hours for that shift, the Fair Labor Standards Act does not require the additional hour to be calculated when configuring an employee's regular rate for overtime. For example, if someone works 40 hours in the week, the additional hour's pay for that daylight-saving hour would be at straight time, not overtime. Even if the employee works over 40 hours in the city’s defined workweek, that one hour would not have to be included in the overtime calculations.
Contact KLC Personnel Services Manager Chris Johnson or Municipal Law Attorney Michael Simon for more information on this or any personnel-related matters.
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