Get the Facts on Overtime, Not Riverside HR Spin

Work Harder, Earn Less?
Riverside County HR is stepping up its campaign to change the way county employees are compensated – expecting employees to work extra time, after hours without overtime pay. Now HR is circulating a misleading letter trying to distract you from the facts: The County’s overtime changes hurt workers, and critical services are on the line.

Riverside employees help ensure first responders can communicate with each other during natural disasters, wild fires, earthquakes, floods, bomb scares, a terrorist attack or other disaster. They provide emergency medical services, communications support and help ensure hardware and software necessary to help locate a 911 caller is up and working, day and night.

  A move by Riverside County to prevent several hundred SEIU members from receiving overtime pay, could jeopardize the county’s ability to respond to after hour emergencies.

  System breakdowns don’t always occur between 9 and 5, many of the analysts and technicians come in additional hours to ensure the system is working. Riverside County’s proposed changes would prevent them from being paid overtime for additional hours worked and make the job unattractive to qualified employees.

Riverside employees: Read the letter about County HR’s campaign for employees to “work harder and earn less” in a letter from Riverside area employees.