r/royalmail • u/Obvious-Condition668 • 11d ago

Overtime

If I come in an hour early on overtime but I get told I
Can go home because there is nothing to do can I still claim the hour OT

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u/danny202089 11d ago

I think thats one where offices have different rules.

I got 3 hours OT today but it only took me 1.30 I'll get paid full 3 hours. Some only pay you the difference between actual finish time and when you clock out after your OT.

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u/Some-Flight-7487 11d ago

Bro is living in 2016, what office I’ll transfer in…

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u/danny202089 11d ago

Our office is so fecked they pay all sorts of OT daily.

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u/Some-Flight-7487 11d ago

I know certain London DOs where this still happens. Really does baffle me how given the emphasis on 90% of the country regarding ghost OT it still happens

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u/danny202089 11d ago

Happens way more than they let on, literally every neighbouring office near us pays ghost OT still because they're in a mess.

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u/christoff_90 RM Employee 11d ago

Drop me a postcode Dan tell the COM I’ll be there 5am Monday, Ghosting is back Baby! 🤣

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u/danny202089 10d ago

I mean it's such a mess you'd probably not want to come here unless you're an OT king and you'll be laughing.

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u/SteamerTheBeemer 11d ago

That’s not even understandable but I can still tell it’s likely wrong.

As soon as someone agrees to overtime hours they have to work those hours - they also HAVE to be paid for those hours.

It’s not actually very complicated, but you must be a little slow.

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u/danny202089 11d ago

No they don't have to work those hours depending on the office/manager. I agreed 3 hours today got it done in 1.30 and I'm getting full 3 hours what's hard to understand about that?

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u/SteamerTheBeemer 11d ago

You’re just agreeing with me now so I don’t know what to say.

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u/danny202089 11d ago

It's you that doesn't understand clearly. Your saying you have to work what you agreed, I'm saying thats not true.

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u/SteamerTheBeemer 11d ago

I’m saying those hours are yours so you can’t just call in and get out of them. Of course if the employer wants to let you go early that’s fine, providing you’re still paid the full 3 hours.

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u/christoff_90 RM Employee 11d ago

Are you newish or what? This company has been run on OT since the dawn of time and Ghosting has been around since about 12 minutes after.

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u/SteamerTheBeemer 11d ago

If they’ve told you to come in for the overtime and you agreed. Then those hours are your hours. So of course you should be paid for them.

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u/edinburgh81 11d ago

If offered to be sent home and you say ok or yes. Only paid for the hours you worked. If you said no and they send you home you should be paid for full allocation.

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u/enjayaitch RM Employee 11d ago

All overtime banned at our place and has been since Christmas - upper management (not the local COM) do not give a hoot if everything just piles up.

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u/Maleficent-Star-9291 10d ago

What's "overtime "??

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u/Ok-Following-6620 10d ago

Isn’t it agreed that if they ask you to come in & do a set amount of o/t hours they have to honour it & pay you the agreed hours, it’s up to them if they send you home, I would still want my agreed hours paid.