If I go to work, will I get paid for that lost hour? : )
LOL!
I am a payroll manager and belong to a professional association and subscribed to their daily, member to member Q&A emails.
The other week a payroll manager posted the following question to the group (paraphrasing).
“Our payroll is semi¬monthly and this week an exempt salaried employee came to me and told me that I needed to make a payroll adjustment because of Leap Year. He felt that because this year, being a Leap Year, and having an extra day in it, he was being “cheated” out of a day’s wages. Aside from the obvious answer of “You are way too stupid to breathe, live alone have a job, live alone have a salaried managerial position”, how do I explain to this raving moron that he gets x number of dollars per year divided by 24 pays and he isn’t entitled to anything extra just because it’s a Leap Year?
I laughed so hard I almost peed myself!
And in a more serious answer to your question, if you are an hourly shift worker who works in a period during which DLST starts, yes, you get paid for the hours for which you actually worked and no, if you are an hourly shift worker who works in a period during which DLST end, you don’t lose an hour of pay. Our automated time clock system is programmed to accommodate DLST changes. :) ,
When I was younger, I worked the graveyard shift as a security officer. Didn't get paid for the hour I missed for spring forward, but DID get an hour overtime for the extra hour of "fall back".
So it balanced out..just took 6 months (back then it was still April - October)