YOU CAN NOT BE MANDATED TO WORK OVERTIME DUE TO CHRONIC SHORT STAFFING

Management cannot mandate you stay for overtime due to chronic short staffing. As per New Jersey law, employers cannot ask you to accept work in excess of your regularly scheduled daily work shift. They can do so only in emergent circumstances, CHRONIC SHORT STAFFING does not apply.

[Click here to Read the NJ State Mandatory Overtime Restrictions for Health Care Facilities]

34:11-56a33. Excessive work shift contrary to public policy



The requirement that an employee of a health care facility accept work in excess of an agreed-to, predetermined, and regularly scheduled daily work shift, not to exceed 40 hours per week, except in the case of an unforeseeable emergent circumstance when the overtime is required only as a last resort and is not used to fill vacancies resulting from chronic short staffing and the employer has exhausted reasonable efforts to obtain staffing, is declared to be contrary to public policy and any such requirement contained in any contract, agreement or understanding executed or renewed after the effective date of this act shall be void.

For questions or concerns, contact a Local Officer

or your Labor Rep: Victoria Pacheco:

vpacheco@jneso.org | (732) 745-2776 x128

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