The law prohibits a health care employer from requiring a nurse to work overtime beyond the predetermined number of hours a nurse:
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Has agreed to work
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Is normally scheduled to work
Regulary scheduled hours may include:
- Prescheduled on-call time
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Time spent communicating shift reports on patient status needed to ensure patient safety
However, employers may NOT substitute on-call time for mandatory overtime. We consider on-call time as time spent working for purposes of determining whether a health care employer has required a nurse to work overtime.
October 2018
Tags: New York, Nurse Mandatory Overtime
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