Dispatcher46
New Member
I am a dispatcher for a police dept and earlier this year we went to 12 hour shifts. The rest of the dept is still on 8 hour shifts. We are paid once a month and the dept. averages out the hours worked per year and divides it by 12 so you have at least a minimum pay that stays the same every month. The problem I am having with the 12 hour shifts is that they are taking some of our overtime from long weeks (48 hours) and applying it to the short week (36 hours) so we have a minimum of 40 hours a week. Can they take the overtime away from us? We no longer have a bargaining unit and there is nothing in policy about 12 hour shifts.