How current pay incentives apply

Spot Pay: Cannot be combine with DTI.

  • $30 per hour, all shifts, all depart­ments.
  • Applies whenever it is picked up for any portion or all of a shift in all units.

ESI: Extra Shift Incentive can be combined with Spot Pay or DTI

  • $5 per hour for .6 or greater FTE to pick up extra shift if regular shifts are worked that week.

Weekend Incentive: Can be combined with DTI or Spot Pay and/or ESI

  • $600 per extra shift worked on a Saturday and/or Sunday
  • Weekend defined as:
    • 12 hour shifts: Friday Shift 3 through Sunday Shift1
    • 8 hour shifts: Friday Shift 2 through Sunday Shift 2

DTI: Double Time Incentive cannot be combined with Spot Pay. Can be combined with ESI.

  • DTI is incentive for nurses to pick up extra shifts when the core schedule has unfilled shifts on the following units:
    * MED-SURG-9TH FLOOR — All Shifts * 5TH FLOOR CARDIAC ICU — All Shifts
    * MED-SURG 4TH SOUTH — All Shifts * PROGRES­SIVE CARE UNIT ‑PCU — All Shifts
    * MED-SURG ONCOLOGY — All Shifts * MED-SURG ACUTE 2 — All Shifts
    * EMERGENCY DEPART­MENT — All Shifts * AMBULA­TORY CARE CENTER — All Shifts
    * CLINICAL DECISION UNIT — All Shifts * 3 SOUTH M‑S TRANSI­TION — All Shifts
    * 6 FL NEURO-TRAUMA ICU — All Shifts * FAMILY BIRTH CENTER — All Shifts

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Wonder if your paycheck is correct?

SJMC Payroll calculates overtime using the weighted pay method. That means the amount paid at the overtime rate of pay changes every week and because the paychecks are for two weeks there is no way to tell by looking at your pay stub exactly how you were paid. That has left some nurses wondering if they have been paid correctly. A grievance filed by WSNA on behalf of Sonia DaSilva that led to a settlement that provides a way for nurses verify if their paychecks are correct.

Any nurse with a question about the calcu­la­tion of overtime in a specific pay period can contact an HR Repre­sen­ta­tive. The HR Repre­sen­ta­tive will then provide the nurse with a copy of the nurse’s Regular Rate Calcu­la­tion Worksheet for the pay period in question. The HR Repre­sen­ta­tive will provide an expla­na­tion of the Employer’s overtime calcu­la­tion method­ology and how the Employer utilized that methodology.

Questions? Contact WSNA Nurse Representative Barbara Friesen at bfriesen@wsna.org.


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