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[cincynate]

I work for EPIK and have an overtime question. It states that I am required to teach a maximum of 22 hours per week. Last week, due to some crazy bs where the school put on a show for the POE (that is the POE came to see a 'normal' class that had been rehearsed 20 times already), two of my classes were cancelled. This week, they made me make up those two classes. So I taught a total of 24 (22+2 extra) this week.. However, only taught 20 last week.. Should they be paying me overtime?

Thanks!

[Groznyji]

If your contract states that you teach a maximum of 22 classes per week and get overtime pay for anything more than that then yes, they should pay you overtime.

The fact that you taught less than the maximum the previous week is irrelevant.

[DrugstoreCowgirl]

Whether you should or not is pretty irrelevant. This has happened to me a lot and my school scoffs at paying me OT because it all equals out in the end.

[jonpurdy]

Well, it's unusual to make up regular classes. I've probably had 50 classes cancelled due to various reasons over the past 18 months and have always just rolled two lessons into one.

I'd calmly suggest next time that they simply roll two classes into one. Cite other schools doing the same.

[Ramen]

[shcforward]

Yes, they should pay you overtime. The 22 hour thing is the maximum - if they go over it they have to pay over time. If they go under, that is their fault - not yours.

[smajk710]

I've been reading about too many teachers complaining about petty issues.
You should work 22 hours per week, but the school canceled 2 of your classes that one week. Now they want you to make up the 2 classes. I think it is fair for them to ask you to make up 2 classes without overtime pay.

[Groznyji]

[schwa]

Petty on the OP's part, I fully agree. For the sake of simply teaching two hours (which he didnt teach last week but still got paid for) he should poison his relationship with his school?

Nice advice from, I'm surmising, people who have earned shitty relationships with their own schools.

[Groznyji]

[schwa]

[lifeinkorea]

Personally, I would never do those hours in the fashion the OP did.

I have agreed to overtime hours on a monthly, NOT hourly basis. This means, yea, you use hourly rates, but when it is finally calculated into your monthly pay you get a lump sum. You don't look at it as individual hours of overtime, otherwise they will nickel and dime you as with the OP.

For example, I did a GEPIK job, but I wanted a higher salary. So, the teacher scheduled overtime hours before 4:30. I didn't have to work past the normal hours, but yes I taught instead of deskwarmed. Accept that, then all you need to do is teach extra classes.

So, when the school has a special event, it doesn't get counted as an extra event to be "made up" for free. You get these overtime hours from the get go. It's up to them to schedule when those extra hours are used. If they aren't, they still have to pay you for them.

[cincynate]

I am not being 'petty'. My school holds me to my contract to a T.. I would think they would expect me to do the same. I taught more than 22 hours this week, and thought I should be paid as such.

[Groznyji]