Colorado nurses sue over time to dress

[Treasure Chest]

I have to agree with the ladies.


What I gather from the above is this....

It's only fair that because of the employers requirment the employee has to spend unpaid time at work. If the workday is from 8 to 5 and they have to spend time in the morning and evening at work off the clock, then that isn't right.

If anyone here was told by their boss " Hey, I'm going to need to you work an extra half hour eveyday, but you're not going to get paid for it" Yoou'd be pretty pissed about it.


The employer should make this known at the time of the interview for the job. At that point the prospective employee has the CHOICE to accept the policy or not take the job. If they were not notified of this policy when they were hired or interviewed then the employer is at fault IMO.

If an employer can demand that an hourly employee be at the workplace and not be paid for that time then we're all gonna get screwed.

Salaried standards are a whole different animal.

They have been employed by the hospital for years. They've been doing it for years. It only became an issue when they got caught clocking in early and were late for their shift. There is so much time in any given day wasted on getting a cup of coffee, running to the vending machine, taking a personal phone call, checking a text message, gossiping with a coworker, that the time to throw on scrubs probably evens itself out over the course of a week.

[Forever_frost]

Fine. Make everyone buy their own scrubs and show up in them. Then tell the entire company it was because of these two douche bags

[Stephen]

Fine. Make everyone buy their own scrubs and show up in them. Then tell the entire company it was because of these two douche bags

like i said earlier... suing over some bullshit like this is crazy! hell the hospital owner will save a shit-ton in linen bills and the ones who did clock in to get dressed... its a win/win for the company

[TexasT]

Who clocks out for lunch?

My job takes 30min out of my time each day so you can be sure my day will stop down for at least 30min . Even if it is at the end after all my stops are complete. I have asked to have it put back in but was told no. No problem.

[8mpg]

Do you expect to be paid for your time once you are AT THE WORKPLACE? I bet you do. That's what they want.

If I'm AT HOME getting ready for work that's on my time. If I'm AT WORK getting ready because my employer requires it then I expect to be paid for that time.





And I've hated working for employers that act like the whole company will fail if you're .1 hour late.

It goes both ways man. Employers are the anal clock watchers in the morning and the employess are the anal clock watchers in the afternoon. It's a wash.

By your logic I should get paid when I pull onto my hospital campus and walk inside...Im at work...why shouldnt I get paid?

How does it take 15 minutes to change your clothes?

I hope these morons end up having to pay for their own uniforms, wash them themselves and still come in at the same time like most hospital employees. Id rather spend my 5 minutes changing into work scrubs and not have to fork out $40 a set and wash them myself. When I get blood soaked onto my scrubs, I end up throwing them away and buying more on MY DIME

[FreightTrain]

My job takes 30min out of my time each day so you can be sure my day will stop down for at least 30min . Even if it is at the end after all my stops are complete. I have asked to have it put back in but was told no. No problem.

That sucks. I get an extra hour of pay everyday for driving to work. It's nice because it covers gas and lunch for the day.

[red95gts]

Putting the scrubs on at home and driving to work completely defeats the purpose of changing into scrubs - infection control.

On one hand, I agree with the women - if the task is a daily job requirement then they should be paid for it. On the other hand, that's the policy. If you don't like it, go find somewhere else to work. Don't file a lawsuit over something as trivial as 15mins. At $40/hr, what are they suing over? $20 gross per day?

[racrguy]

Putting the scrubs on at home and driving to work completely defeats the purpose of changing into scrubs - infection control.

On one hand, I agree with the women - if the task is a daily job requirement then they should be paid for it. On the other hand, that's the policy. If you don't like it, go find somewhere else to work. Don't file a lawsuit over something as trivial as 15mins. At $40/hr, what are they suing over? $20 gross per day?

5200 a year. Yeah, sounds like enough money to raise a stink about to me.

[zemog]

when i was working for security at comanche peak nuclear we had the same rule, uniforms, guns, badges, shoes, everything had to stay there, we dressed prior to work had to take the 5min walk across the plant for briefing, but you had to be in the briefing room prior to your shift and you were not on the clock, this was back in the early 90's,;; now they get to take everything home and dress.......similiar situation

[jluv]

I agree that they should get paid for dressing there. They tried to clock in early while they were dressing, so they sould be on time for their shift, and got in trouble. They tried clocking in at their normal shift time, and then got dressed, but they got in trouble for that, too. It seems like they tried to make it work, and now they're taking action because they were written up, so it's the company that was acting like cheap-asses first. You'd think they would let it go. They will once this is all said and done, because I bet the nurses win.

Oh, and the nurses should come to work naked so at least they don't have to get dressed twice.

[jluv]

At $40/hr, what are they suing over? $20 gross per day?

As pointed out already, that's a lot of money at the end of the year.