I got a call yesterday from one of our Traveling Physical Therapist. She was concerned about her hours being short during the Thanksgiving Holiday and because she is in Cirrus Allied housing she was deducted for housing also. After looking over her contract with her on the phone I realized that she is guaranteed 40 hours from the client. So as long as she is willing to work the full 40 hours she has to be paid upon that.
The Account Manager put in a request to the facility to see if in fact they were not allowing her enough hours to work the full 40 hour week. As it turned out our Physical Therapist was not given a full 40 hours to work so we paid her based on the 40 hours guaranteed.
Having these guaranteed hours is a good thing to keep your pay steady but also if you are in housing. If in housing, once you fall below 40 hours a week in hours, payroll deducts $10.50 for every hour short. Because we were able to guarantee 40 hours our traveler is going to receive a reimbursement for an additional 8 hours of work and $84 for housing reimbursement.
Moral of the story, be sure to get a guaranteed 40 hours of work on your assignment.
-NB
