Overtime Compensation Research Articles

Working conditions in surgery and their impact : Results of anational survey

In surgical disciplines poor working conditions and ahigh level of dissatisfaction among surgeons in the various disciplines have been reported. The psychological consequences of these conditions on the surgeons themselves and the effects on their families have so far been inadequately considered. The objective of this national survey of the Professional Association of German Surgery (Berufsverband der Deutschen Chirurgie e. V.) was to determine the current status of working conditions in surgical departments of German hospitals and to demonstrate their psychological and familial effects. In the period January-February 2024 aquestionnaire with 26questions focusing on psychological stress, work-related partnership and family problems as well as addictive behavior was sent to all members of the Berufsverband der Deutschen Chirurgie e. V. and to all German surgical societies. Atotal of 2221 questionnaires could be analyzed. Among the survey participants, bureaucracy (84.4%) and inadequate compensation for overtime (68.1%) were seen as the main stress factors. Alcohol (20.3%), nicotine (8.9%) and medication (8.3%) were cited as ways of managing the workload. Of the surgeons 60% reported anegative impact on their relationship with their partner and 40% on their relationship with their children. The surgeons reported poor working conditions. These have amassive impact on the mental health of surgeons and on their family relationships. Consequently, many surgeons consider leaving the surgical profession. To improve this situation and to make the surgical profession attractive again, adrastic rethinking is needed.

Effects of short- and long-term exposures to multiple air pollutants on depression among the labor force: A nationwide longitudinal study in China

BackgroundDepression prevalence has surged within the labor force population in recent years. While links between air pollutants and depression were explored, there was a notable scarcity of research focusing on the workforce. MethodsThis nationwide longitudinal study analyzed 27,457 workers aged 15–64. We estimated monthly mean concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), its primary components, and Ozone (O3) at participants' residences using spatiotemporal models. To assess the relationship between short- (1 to 3 months) and long-term (1 to 2 years) exposure to various air pollutants and depressive levels and occurrences, we employed linear mixed–effects models and mixed–effects logistic regression. We considered potential occupational moderators, such as labor contracts, overtime compensation, and total annual income. ResultsWe found significant increases in depression risks within the workforce linked to both short- and long-term air pollution exposure. A 10 μg/m3 rise in 2-year average PM2.5, black carbon (BC), and O3 concentrations correlated with increments in depressive scores of 0.009, 0.173, and 0.010, and a higher likelihood of depression prevalence by 0.5 %, 12.6 %, and 0.7 %. The impacts of air pollutants and depression were more prominent in people without labor contracts, overtime compensation, and lower total incomes. ConclusionExposures to air pollutants could increase the risk of depression in the labor force population. The mitigating effects of higher income, benefits, and job security against depression underscore the need for focused mental health interventions.

What is important to young medical technologists for radiology when choosing a job?

Given the intensifying competition in Germany for medical technologists for radiology (MTR), our aim was to identify job-related preferences among MTR trainees. For this purpose, a survey was carried out among MTR trainees at the MTR schools in Düsseldorf, Mainz, and Heidelberg. The focus was on the individual influence of 40 work- and employer-related factors and on the preferred place of work (hospital, practice) and area of operation (radiology, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy) after completing training. 90 MTR trainees took part in the survey. On average, they indicated a pleasant working atmosphere, regular compensation for overtime, and good teamwork as the most important criteria for applying for an MTR position. With regard to their preferred place of work, more than two-thirds stated that they would initially apply to a hospital after completing their training. Moreover, the majority of the respondents prefer to start their MTR careers in diagnostic and interventional radiology, followed by radiation therapy and nuclear medicine. Imaging clinics and practices can use the present results for targeted personnel recruitment in order to make their MTR positions as attractive as possible from the point of view of young MTRs. · The increasing competition for qualified young talent also affects imaging centers.. · The aim of the survey was to gain insight into the career- and job-related preferences of MTRs.. · Imaging clinics/practices can use these results as a starting point for establishing specific human resources measures for technologists.. · An increase in perceived employer attractiveness can lead to competitive advantages with respect to attracting and retaining qualified MTRs.. · Zippel C, Wirth P, Biedenstein S et al. What is important to young medical technologists for radiology when choosing a job?. Fortschr Röntgenstr 2024; DOI: 10.1055/a-2221-3971.

Shadow Labor in Care Services: Why Do South Korean Women Care Workers Work Such Long Hours and Get Paid So Little?

Abstract Korea is a country with extremely long working hours and severe gender inequality in the labor market. Based on twenty-nine in-depth interviews with Korean women care workers, this study investigates key mechanisms that reproduce unpaid and unrecognized shadow labor in paid care services. Accordingly, it argues that the presumption that it is mostly Korean men who suffer from working long hours is incorrect. Women workers work long hours, and they often do so without compensation for overtime. They also engage in labor that is not included in their original job description. The Korean labor market supplies an unlimited number of women for cheap labor in the care service sector, meaning the government can depend heavily on private organizations and businesses to meet increasing care needs among the population. Because women care workers could not specify an employer who is responsible for their wages and working conditions, they could not see themselves as employees with basic labor rights. Instead, they take the familiar roles of dutiful daughters and caring mothers, consenting to the very situation that makes them susceptible to severe wage penalties and unrecognized and unappreciated long working hours.

Overtime employment in enterprises

The topic of overtime employment is very relevant for modern Russian realities. For many companies and their employees, this is a rather painful issue, since the rules for overtime compensation are not always marked in advance. Very often there are situations where the main problem lies in the field of interpersonal communications. In the article, the author examines the identified problems on the part of the HR service of the enterprise.

The Politics of Time: The Political Origins of Working-Time Regulation

AbstractTowards the end of the nineteenth century, leisure was reserved for the few. By the end of the twentieth century, however, most workers had a regulated normal working time of 40 or fewer hours per week, annual paid leave, and overtime compensation. In this paper, I investigate which political parties brought forth these changes – which party constellations supported or opposed working-time reforms and argue that sector and class differences drive party preferences. Lower-class and urban middle-class workers demanded regulation as demand for leisure increased with income. In contrast, employers and farmers opposed such reforms. Accordingly, the study argues that socialist and social-liberal parties were inclined to support leisure-securing working-time reforms, whereas conservative and farmer parties opposed them. Due to their linkages with workers and farmers, liberal parties may be divided into a rural constituency that tends to oppose working-time reforms and an urban constituency that supports them. I test these expectations using parliamentary data: 65 roll-call votes from Norway between 1880 and 1940, combined with analysis of major reforms and legislative appeals. Finally, I undertake a generalization test using country-level reform data from 33 democracies between 1880 and 2010. Results generally fall in line with expectations, and the pattern is stable over time.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the US healthcare system

The COVID-19 epidemic had an enormous effect on the health of millions of individuals worldwide and the global economy. A shortage of doctors, nurses, personal protective equipment, and medicines was seen globally. The pandemic drew attention to limitations in the healthcare sector of the United States of America. The massive rise in the daily number of cases, more usage of ICU facilities and all the treatment modalities, and increased overtime compensation for the staff negatively impacted the hospital’s finances. This also affected the mental and physical health of all the healthcare workers. Through additional funding from federal relief legislation and the relaxation of many regulatory requirements, the federal, state, and local governments took significant steps to address the need for prevention and treatment services that arose from COVID-19 and the disruptions in healthcare delivery and finances resulting from the pandemic. Congress enacted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, on March 27th, 2020. This measure appropriated $2.2 trillion to offer immediate and direct economic assistance to Americans affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Shifting National Holiday Times In the Context of the Labor Law System

In the world of labor today, companies often shift national holiday time for power efficiency, but the rule that working on official holidays must be counted as overtime creates two different perceptions of the shift. The company applies national holidays to weekdays so that the company considers it normal work, but workers see it as a shift. Normative research analyzes laws and regulations. This research inventories and analyzes legislation on adjusting national holiday time in Indonesia's labor law system to determine workers' rights and obligations on government-set holidays and the legal basis for doing so. The study found that employers can order workers to work on government-set public holidays if they meet certain conditions and obligations based on statutory provisions, employment agreements, or collective labor agreements, which are supervised by the government, in this case the Ministry of Manpower, by imposing administrative and criminal penalties. provided that it meets the law and its implementing rules and work agreements or collective bargaining agreements pertaining to the nature and type of labor and the responsibility for Employers to pay overtime compensation for work on public holidays to Laborers.

Conflict Resolution Between Security Guard and Security Service Provider (Case Study : PT Cakra Mandiri Perkasa Depok)

Based on The main cause of internal conflict in a security service provider company, which is usually caused by the problem of conflicting expectations, namely dissatisfaction with compensation for wages, overtime and Jamsostek that are not in line with the expectations of security members, finally found several other causes of conflict. The right solution is of course very much needed to provide satisfaction to all security members. By identifying the factors that play a role in the dimensions of internal conflict resolution between personal security and security service providers, related to organizational communication, it is hoped that a conflict resolution model can be built in companies that are experiencing internal conflicts based on organizational communication. Methodand research design using qualitative research with a case study design (case study). This research case study is related to the problem of internal conflict between workers (security personnel) and security service providers. The key informants in this research are Security Members, Security Service Provider Employees and several other supporting informants. It turns out that the problem of conflict of expectations is the most dominant factor in the occurrence of conflict so that conflict resolution related to the dissatisfaction that causes the conflict is to build a conflict resolution model.

Exploring the promoting effect of working time reduction on life satisfaction using Germany as a case study

Worktime reduction’s effect on life satisfaction is an important issue but one that has not been fully studied. This article fills this gap and uses an ordered probit model to analyse the working time reduction impact on life satisfaction in Germany by using the European Social Survey data, the mediating effect of health and cross-partner effect are also explored. A significantly negative correlation between working time and life satisfaction are revealed, showing that a short working week can improve Germans’ life satisfaction. Health is confirmed to be the important intermediate variable in the ‘worktime–health–life satisfaction’ nexus and about 28% of the satisfaction among German people is due to the change in health explained by working hours. Further, we find that high-earners prefer to work long hours whereas low-earners tend to work less; middle-earners show no personal preferences. Cross-partner effects are confirmed, as a male’s short working week can satisfy their partner, while a female’s long working hours can improve their partner’s life satisfaction. In light of this, working hours should be restricted to avoid unsatisfaction induced by overtime work and overtime compensation regulations should be strictly implemented, policy-makers also need to take gender differences into consideration.

2022/24 Burden of proof in proceedings on overtime compensation (GE)

2022/24 Burden of proof in proceedings on overtime compensation (GE)

Right to Compensation for Overtime in the Civil Service Corps in Poland

Right to Compensation for Overtime in the Civil Service Corps in Poland

조직공정성 인식과 직무만족, 이직의도 간의 영향관계 : 초과근무 보상과 관련한 호텔주방종사원의 인식을 중심으로

조직공정성 인식과 직무만족, 이직의도 간의 영향관계 : 초과근무 보상과 관련한 호텔주방종사원의 인식을 중심으로

Employer and Employee Preferences for Worker Benefits: Evidence from a Matched Survey on the Bangladesh Informal Sector

Informality is ubiquitous in the labor markets of developing countries, and requiring that firms formally register, pay taxes, and provide employee benefits stipulated in labor regulations to reduce such informality is challenging. However, a matched survey on employer-employee preferences suggests that mutually beneficial job benefits exist, and that encouraging their adoption might be feasible. Carefully designed discrete choice experiments on combinations of benefits related to compensation, leave and termination policies, working conditions, and accident insurance, along with incentives for employers, reveal the relative values that workers and employers attach to each benefit. The results show that workers tend to value advance notice for job termination and accident insurance, and that employers are not averse to providing these benefits. In contrast, workers find long working hours without overtime compensation to be highly undesirable, whereas many employers are generally unwilling to provide shorter hours or overtime pay unless they face the threat of fines or are offered substantial incentives for doing so. Our findings therefore suggest that encouraging the provision of termination notice and accident insurance may be relatively easy, but that increasing compliance with legal limits on working hours and overtime compensation is likely to require increased enforcement or substantial incentives.

Work hour constraints in the German nursing workforce: A quarter of a century in review

BackgroundWork hour constraints (WHC), or the mismatch between desired and actual worktime, can negatively affect work productivity, job satisfaction, worker health and job fluctuations. ObjectivesThis study analyzes the WHC trends in the German nursing market between 1990 and 2015. MethodsUsing data from 25 waves (1990–1995 and 1997–2015) of the German Socio-Economic Panel, the contractual, actual, and desired worktime among a representative sample of German nurses (N = 6493) were analyzed. The trends in over/underemployment for full and part-time nurses and the modalities/trends in overtime compensation were analyzed. A Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition was used to explain changes in worktime. ResultsAlthough German nurses’ actual and contractual work hours decreased substantially between 1990 and 2015, their desired work hours remained stable (31 h/week), precipitating a persistent gap between actual and desired work hours and an ongoing reliance on overtime. For full-time nurses, the actual work hours consistently exceeded the contracted ones by 3–6 hours. For part-time nurses, the actual and desired work hours have remained very similar, indicating ability to control workforce participation. ConclusionsWHC remained persistently high over the quarter century studied, with overemployment affecting nearly half of the nursing workforce. Overemployment, resulting primarily from overtime, was high among full-time nurses. Study findings could guide the formulation of programs to optimize German nursing workforce participation.

The Importance of Harmonizing Working Timetables in Seaport Clusters

Seaport clusters are complex commercial systems, consisting of a large number of heterogeneous stakeholders. Therefore, it is important to harmonize their business procedures to ensure effectiveness. Harmonization implies the adjustment of differences and inconsistencies among different measurements, methods, procedures, schedules, specifications, or systems to make them uniform or mutually compatible. This paper will particularly research the inconsistencies of working timetables of various seaport cluster stakeholders, which hampers their business flow and seaport effectiveness in general. In order to analyse the inconsistencies of working hours of seaport cluster stakeholders, it was necessary to collect and summarize the working hours of various statutory authorities (government institutions) and service providers (private concessionaires) in the port of Rijeka, Croatia. Data was collected from 14 different stakeholders, and it was evident that working hours’ discrepancies exist, manifested by different and uneven periods of daily shifts, daily breaks and periods of regular and overtime work. Service providers have different shifts, and differently defined overtime (and overtime compensation). For the simplicity and transparency of seaport cluster operations, the authors recommend harmonizing the shifts, periods of regular and overtime work, and overtime compensation of all stakeholders, with the ultimate goal to increase the competitiveness of the seaport cluster and the traffic corridor as a whole.

Panel: Overtime Compensation an Pay Equity in Higher Education (CLE)

Panel: Overtime Compensation an Pay Equity in Higher Education (CLE)

Panel: Overtime Compensation an Pay Equity in Higher Education (CLE)

Panel: Overtime Compensation an Pay Equity in Higher Education (CLE)

. ('Special Technical Study in Egypt Governmental Sector' Compensation for Working in the Days of Official Holidays and Vacations and Compensation for Overtime)

Arabic Abstract: ي ظل بيئة متغيرة والتي تفرض العديد من المتغيرات التي من شأنها أن تجعل الباحثين المهنيين دائمي البحث عن حلولووسائل للتغلب على المشكلات المعاصرة.ولما كان موضوع مقابل العمل في أيام العطلات والاجازات الرسمية وكذلك مقابل ساعات العمل الإضافية من المواضيعالتي قلما تطرق اليه أحد من حيث البحث من جهة التطبيق المالي أكثر منه التنظيري .فقد قمت بعمل ذلك البحث لأتطرق أكث ر الى جانب المعالجة المالية أكث ر منها التنظيرية والتي كفلتها مظلة القوانينالمنظمة لذلك بما يحقق صالح العمل والموظف العام بالجهاز الإداري للدولة المصرية..English Abstract: Under which it imposes many variables that would make permanent researchers and professionals to search for solutions and means to overcome the problems of contemporary changing environment.As the subject for Compensation for working in the days of official holidays and vacations And Compensation for additional working hours of the topics that are rarely touched it in terms of financial application rather than theoretical.I have to do that research to touch more to the side of financial processing than theoretical side that guaranteed by the umbrella of laws. Hoping to achieve the benefit of this research to the employee of the public administrative system of the Egyptian state.

The Caring Majority: Building a Coalition Around Domestic Workers' Rights

The Caring Majority: Building a Coalition Around Domestic Workers' Rights