HR IQ - huh?
NaeNae55
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Question 5: Woody is a security guard at Waste Away who earns $10.00 an hour. He works two 12-hour shifts and two eight-hour shifts each week. Waste Away has had trouble with frequent absences and tardiness among its security team members. Three months ago Management announced that all security officers who report for duty on time and work all shifts as assigned in a given week will receive a $100 bonus for that week.
Woody was on time and worked every shift assigned this week, earning his $100 bonus. In fact, during his last shift of the week, Woody caught and detained a group of teenagers who had scaled a fence and were tipping cows in one of Waste Away's back pastures. Management rewarded Woody for catching the trespassers with an additional $100 bonus. What is Woody's regular rate of pay for the week? How much overtime and total compensation is he owed?
1. Regular rate = $10
Overtime rate = $15
Overtime owed = $120 (eight hours x overtime rate of $15 per hour)
Total compensation = $620 ($500 hourly pay and bonus plus $120 overtime)
2. Regular rate = $12.08
Overtime rate = $18.12
Overtime owed = $144.96 (eight hours x overtime rate of $18.12 per hour)
Total compensation = $628.16 ($483.20 hourly pay plus $144.96 overtime)
3. Regular rate = $12.50
Overtime rate = $18.75
Overtime owed = $150
Total compensation = $650 ($500 hourly pay plus $150 overtime)
How can any of these answers be correct? Two 12-hour shirts (24 hours) and two 8-hour shifts (16 hours) comes to 40 hours. There is no overtime.
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Woody was on time and worked every shift assigned this week, earning his $100 bonus. In fact, during his last shift of the week, Woody caught and detained a group of teenagers who had scaled a fence and were tipping cows in one of Waste Away's back pastures. Management rewarded Woody for catching the trespassers with an additional $100 bonus. What is Woody's regular rate of pay for the week? How much overtime and total compensation is he owed?
1. Regular rate = $10
Overtime rate = $15
Overtime owed = $120 (eight hours x overtime rate of $15 per hour)
Total compensation = $620 ($500 hourly pay and bonus plus $120 overtime)
2. Regular rate = $12.08
Overtime rate = $18.12
Overtime owed = $144.96 (eight hours x overtime rate of $18.12 per hour)
Total compensation = $628.16 ($483.20 hourly pay plus $144.96 overtime)
3. Regular rate = $12.50
Overtime rate = $18.75
Overtime owed = $150
Total compensation = $650 ($500 hourly pay plus $150 overtime)
How can any of these answers be correct? Two 12-hour shirts (24 hours) and two 8-hour shifts (16 hours) comes to 40 hours. There is no overtime.
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left out of the scenario. We will get revise the question soon. Here is how the
corrected question will read:
Woody is a security guard at Waste Away who earns $10.00 an hour. He works
two 12-hour shifts and two eight-hour shifts each week. Waste Away has had
trouble with frequent absences and tardiness among its security team
members. Three months ago Management announced that all security officers
who report for duty on time and work all shifts as assigned in a given week
will receive a $100 bonus for that week.
Woody was on time and worked all four shifts assigned this week, earning his
$100 bonus. He also filled in an extra four hours on each of the two days he
would normally have worked an eight-hour shift, for a total of eight hours
overtime. In addition, during his last shift of the week, he caught and
detained a group of teenagers who had scaled a fence and were tipping cows
in one of Waste Away's back pastures. Management rewarded Woody for catching
the trespassers with an additional $100 bonus."
I lost interest partway through the second paragraph and just scrolled down to the bottom to see what you thought the answer was. Saved myself time AND eyestrain.