Hess overtime pay?

tfann · #1 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 07:46 PM

Can someone explain this to me?

My husband recently took a job driving for Hess (in Charleston, SC), delivering gas. He's required to work 60 hours a week, but they don't pay over time until you go over 60 hours ... however, you're not allowed to work over 60 hours (if you do you get 'suspended' and so does the dispatcher who was on duty at the time).

I didn't get it ... how can they not pay overtime? So I called the SC Labor Board and they say it's because their drivers may cross state lines. My husband has only been there for 3 months but he's never crossed state lines, nor has anyone else from his terminal. But I guess the possibility is there.

But what does that have to do with anything? I just don't understand it. Does anyone know why this is?

Thanks in advance.

Cerberus · #2 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 07:51 PM

ok let me understand this. your out of jersey right ? but your running in sc ? or is he running in jersey but hasn't left the state of jersey ? if that is the case then that is because he is working in jersey for a sc company so they consider that an out of state company running over the border. might want to clarify this some more.

tfann · #3 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 07:54 PM

Oh, I'm sorry, I have to update my profile. We're in SC. We moved here from NJ last September.

So we live in SC and he's working for Hess in SC.

Sorry for the confusion.

Cerberus · #4 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 07:56 PM

ok now look into does the company as a whole go out of state ? if just one driver does then for gov't reasons they are considered a company that crosses state line.

Cerberus · #5 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 07:58 PM

plus they might be regerstered with dot as a company that does so meaning they have many state ifta stckers on the truck that says they can travel out of state.

grocery thrower · #6 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 10:21 PM

Trucking companies are exempt from overtime wage laws, they don't have to pay overtime if they don't want to, some do some don't, I don't know why they came up with that cok and bull story to tell your husband, they should have just told him the truth, they don't want to pay overtime, it saves them money. Its just one more way truckdrivers get screwed sometimes, we seem to be a cash cow of sorts, whether its saving somebody money or handing it over ourselves, like the hazmat fingerprinting...what a joke..LOL