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[gregmcd101]

Replying to another thread got me thinking about this. So, in my last college they did it on a monthly basis. 20 classes a week they rounded off to 80 a month (slightly beneficial) so of you worked an average of 5 classes a week, and there was,say, 21 working days that month = 105 classes, therefore 25 hours of OT. BUT if there was a holiday you lose 5 classes. if there is a weeks holiday, you essentially did that months OT for free, as in September with National day. Days off for Xmas, Mayday, whatever, all penalized in your OT payment.

Now I have a sweeter deal. "OT will be calculated after 4 weeks of teaching" (not just 4 weeks) so, I had 3 weeks before national day, one week since, 96 classes. Contract is for 14 hours a week, or 56 in the 4 week period, so I get 40 OT hours after every 4 weeks of actual teaching. I will get this every 4 weeks until Xmas. I guess i will still lose out a bit for the odd day off (but usually gotta make these up anyway) but when there is a weeks holiday, no penalty.

Yeah, I am a little bored

[mikefriend]

I have always discussed with my employer that OT was calculated on a weekly basis.

If my contract says 16 classes a week and I work 20 in one week then I am entitled to 4 hours of OT for that week.

If the next week I work 10 then that's great but it doesn't cancel out the OT from the week before.

Never had an issue with this so far and have been paid all the time.

Just make sure the contract specifies how many classes a week you do and of course that each class counts as one hour. Some schools say that a 45 minute class counts as 45 minutes and you wind up doing 25% more work for the same pay.

[arioch36]

Well said

[gregmcd101]