Nov. 01--Halloween partyers will have an extra hour for fun this year before calling it a night. But for workers, pushing the clocks back an hour can mean a longer-than-usual late-night shift.
When daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, businesses around the Chicago area say they will carry on as usual.
"We just prepare the party one extra hour," said Mike Miller, owner of the bar Delilah's on Chicago's North Side.
Most of the bartenders there work fewer than 40 hours a week, Miller explained. The late-night bartenders begin around 9 or 10 p.m. and typically work five or six hours a night. But on Saturday they'll have an extra hour to show off their skills and rake in some tips.
"An extra hour of being tipped is kind of a bonus," Miller said. "Picking up an extra hour on a night that is rocking -- most bartenders would be happy about it."
At Raffaello Hotel in the city's Gold Coast neighborhood, people on the night shift will work an extra hour because their system only records when staff members begin and end their shifts, operations manager Earline Pirtle said.
"They don't get paid (for the extra hour)," Pirtle said.
Staff members at Advocate Children's Hospital's neonatal intensive care in Park Ridge keep the same start and end times, but if they go over 40 hours for the workweek they are paid overtime, said Paula Glass, clinical manager for the neonatal intensive care unit.
"They keep the same schedule, so if someone has an 11-to-7, they have to work an extra hour," Glass said.
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