cfradenburg (12/3/2011)
george sibbald (12/3/2011)
How can you exempt support staff such as DBAs and network staff when a lot of their work by its nature has to be done outside of normal working hours?I've never expected to get paid extra for scheduled off-hours work since it is part of the job and I knew it coming in. My expectation is that I get comp time for it so I'm still around 40 hours a week.
IMHO You might be selling yourself cheap, I think getting paid for out of hours work should be the default position. Having said that I am all for a bit of flexibility and if it suits you to have time off in lieu and the company is happy with that, why not. However remember that is compensating you at 1:1 for working unsocial hours, rather than time and a half or whatever. Also it can be difficult finding the slack to take the time off, and you end up having to work harder to make up for the lost time!
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