Act 102 Summary
The Prohibition of Excessive Overtime in Health Care Act (Act 102) prohibits a health care facility from requiring employees to work more than agreed to, predetermined, and regularly scheduled work shifts. Act 102 covers employees involved in direct patient care or clinical care services who receive an hourly wage or who are classified as nonsupervisory employees for collective bargaining purposes.
Act 102 does not prevent an employee from working more than an 8-hour shift if this shift is agreed to and regularly scheduled. Employees may also agree to work any overtime.
This law does not prohibit overtime for on-call time or for certain unforeseeable emergent circumstances as defined in that law. Act 102 also allows overtime if an employee must complete a patient care procedure already in progress at the end of regularly scheduled shift and the employee's absence could have an adverse effect on the patient.