Cali MT here
Posted By: travelinMT on 2009-04-20
In Reply to: Totally worth it - rand_man
I don't believe the companies would get away with the NJA gig that they pull where you are logged in to the time clock but there is no work, so you have to keep looking every few minutes to see if anything has popped into the que and then when work comes in they expect your to work 8 hrs of transcription time. I used to work for Edix before it was Spheris and that was what they pulled on us. My acct. was in Tx. and the phone lines kept going down, we were still expected to keep checking to see if we could dial in every few min and then we had to work 8 hrs after the lines came back up. With the laws now they would have to pay overtime for that because technically we were logged into the system for over 8 hrs and anything over 8 hrs in CA is OT.
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